Kosovo

BELGRADE - Belgrade welcomes the Srpska lista decision to run in the February 9 elections in Kosovo-Metohija to win a landslide victory by taking all ten seats guaranteed to Serbs in Pristina's assembly to continue to fight for the survival of Serbs in the province by democratic means and through institutions, says the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic.

PARIS - Belgrade has succeeded in taking Pristina's request for special guest status in the Council of Europe (CoE) off the agenda of Wednesday's session of the organisation's Political Committee, says Biljana Pantic Prlja, who heads the Serbian delegation to the CoE.

BRUSSELS - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak said on Wednesday he had briefed the North Atlantic Council on developments in the dialogue and noted the significance of EU-NATO cooperation for regional stability.

FREIBERG - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday his discussions with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had addressed not only mining projects but also Kosovo-Metohija and other important issues, as well as the geopolitical situation.

PRISTINA - Prosecutors in Pristina have indicted a Serb man identified with the initials D D for allegedly committing the criminal offences of attacking an officer on duty and "involvement in a crowd that committed acts of crime and hooliganism" during a protest outside the municipal building in Zvecan, northern Kosovo-Metohija, on May 29, 2023.

BRUSSELS - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak said on Monday he had briefed EU member states over the past two weeks on the state of play in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, and announced that he would have a "packed schedule of meetings and official missions" in the coming weeks.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Srpska lista, a political organisation of Kosovo-Metohija Serbs, announced on Friday it would run in the February 9 elections in the province, noting that it was the only party representing the interests of Serbs living there.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Marko Djuric said on Friday a decision by Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency members Denis Becirovic and Zeljko Komsic to receive Albin Kurti as a representative of the false so-called state of "Kosovo" was deeply contrary to the principles of goodneighbourliness and mutual respect between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and eroded the fundaments of the relations between

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said on Friday no Serbian authority or official, or anyone who could be associated with Serbia, had been involved in a recent incident in which a canal at Zubin Potok, northern Kosovo-Metohija, was damaged by an explosion.

Speaking to the RTS, Dacic said Serbian police had received no query from Pristina regarding that criminal act.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Marko Djuric said "deeply troubling scenes" had unfolded in the Pristina provisional institutions' assembly on Thursday as Srpska lista representatives were denied entry to a session.

Djuric called on the international community to react and "ensure the protection of democratic processes and minority rights."