Albin Kurti

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija Milovan Drecun said on Thursday a decision by Pristina to ban the Serbian dinar was one of the toughest blows to Kosovo-Metohija Serbs to date but that Pristina's PM Albin Kurti would not stop there.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said on Thursday a decision by Pristina's PM Albin Kurti to ban the Serbian dinar in Kosovo-Metohija undermined dialogue.

They will discuss the decision of the authorities in Pristina to activate the decree on the abolition of the Serbian Dinar in Kosovo and Metohija starting tomorrow.
As "Novosti" unofficially learns, the head of state also spoke with two European leaders tonight, and a meeting with the Russian ambassador Alexander Botsan Kharchenko is scheduled for tomorrow.

BELGRADE - The director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said a meeting between Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and representatives of the Quint states on Wednesday evening had been the most difficult one he had ever attended and that it had been clear to everyone in the room Pristina's PM Albin Kurti was the main culprit for the current situation in Kosovo

WARSAW - More than 10 per cent of Serbs have left Kosovo-Metohija over the past year under sustained pressure by Pristina, according to an International Crisis Group (ICG) report.

The report, titled "Toward Normal Relations between Kosovo and Serbia," said tensions in Kosovo-Metohija had risen since the advent of Pristina's PM Albin Kurti.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic held an urgent meeting with several government ministers on Tuesday evening after Pristina's PM Albin Kurti rejected a proposal by the US, the EU and Quint states and decided instead that a ban on the Serbian dinar in Kosovo-Metohija begin on Wednesday, sources in the Presidency of Serbia told Tanjug.

It is also estimated that tensions in Kosovo have increased since the coming to power of the Prime Minister of the temporary institutions of Pristina, Albin Kurti.

The meeting followed after the Prime Minister of Pristina's temporary institutions, Albin Kurti, rejected the proposal of the USA, the EU and the Quint countries and decided that the ban on the use of the dinar in Kosovo and Metohija would begin today, Tanjug was told in the Presidency.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Tuesday past statements by the Quint states about various illegal bans imposed by Pristina's PM Albin Kurti had been void of substance and relevance but that the latest one - issued after Pristina announced it would stop payment transactions with central Serbia and ban the Serbian dinar from February

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Monday that, at a meeting with the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic had noted the difficult position of Kosovo-Metohija Serbs and that Pristina needed to stop making escalatory moves that disrupted the lives of Serbs.