Kosovo

WASHINGTON - The US State Department believes the EU-facilitated dialogue is the proper channel for resolving issues related to normalisation of Belgrade-Pristina relations and that discussions about the Serbian dinar should continue with urgency, says principal deputy spokesperson for the US State Department Vedant Patel.

BRUSSELS - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak announced on Tuesday discussions about cash operations in Kosovo-Metohija would be continued in Brussels next Monday.

BRUSSELS - For Serbia, it is important to find a solution in the dialogue with Pristina that will include continued operations of the Postal Savings Bank in Kosovo-Metohija, the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said in Brussels on Tuesday.

BRUSSELS - The director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Tuesday that, at a Brussels meeting with Pristina's chief negotiator Besnik Bislimi and the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak, Belgrade's delegation had pointed out everything that posed a difficulty for the survival of Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija.

BRUSSELS - A trilateral meeting of the chief negotiators of Belgrade and Pristina, Petar Petkovic and Besnik Bislimi, and the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak concluded in Brussels at around 4.30 pm on Tuesday.

The meeting, which began at around 1 pm, lasted slightly over 3.5 hours.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with Russian Ambassador to Belgrade Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko on Tuesday and presented to him a letter for Vladimir Putin in which he congratulated the Russian president on his re-election and explained the difficult situation Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija are in.

BRUSSELS - A trilateral meeting of the chief negotiators of Belgrade and Pristina, Petar Petkovic and Besnik Bislimi, and the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak began in Brussels shortly before 1 pm on Tuesday.

Previously, a delegation of experts from Belgrade that was led by Petkovic met with an EU delegation headed by Lajcak.

BRUSSELS - A meeting of Belgrade's delegation of experts led by chief negotiator Petar Petkovic, who is also director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija, and an EU delegation headed by the special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak began in Brussels on Tuesday shortly after 11 am.

A senior US official visited Montenegro Monday to offer support to the small Balkan nation seeking to join the European Union.

During a press conference in the capital Podgorica, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Gabriel Escobar said Montenegro should be next in line to join the 27-nation bloc.

BELGRADE - The candidate for Serbian parliament speaker, Ana Brnabic, said on Monday derecognitions of the so-called Kosovo by 28 countries since 2012 were the greatest success of the present Serbian authorities.