Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Information and Telecommunications Mihailo Jovanovic on Thursday condemned in the strongest terms a decision by Pristina to deny entry to Kosovo-Metohija to a Tanjug reporter who was to report on Patriarch Porfirije's Christmas visit to Serbian holy sites in Kosovo-Metohija.

BELGRADE - Tanjug reporter Andjelko Utjesanovic, who was on Wednesday denied entry to Kosovo-Metohija, says claims by the so-called Kosovo Police that he was allowed to enter the territory are untrue.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said on Thursday a turbulent period was ahead of Serbia and that he expected the pressure over Kosovo-Metohija to culminate by March.

MERDARE - Tanjug reporter Andjelko Utjesanovic was denied entry to Kosovo-Metohija by the so-called Kosovo Police at the Merdare administrative crossing on Wednesday afternoon.

Utjesanovic was to report on Serbian Patriarch Porfirije's visit to Serbian holy sites in Kosovo-Metohija.

BELGRADE - Serbia took over the one-year Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) presidency from Montenegro on Monday, and its Minister of Internal and External Trade Tomislav Momirovic expects to see Pristina's ban on Serbian goods end in 2024.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The first passenger car with "RKS" licence plates on which the "RKS" designation was not covered by a sticker crossed into central Serbia at the Jarinje administrative crossing on Monday morning following the January 1 entry into force of a Serbian government decision to allow free movement for all vehicles from the territory of Kosovo-Metohija, Kosovo Online reported.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic says the pressure on Serbia over Kosovo-Metohija can be expected to focus in February.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic has written to the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak in stern protest over Pristina's plan to collect an electricity debt purportedly accumulated by four Serb-majority municipalities in the north of Kosovo-Metohija, diplomatic sources told Tanjug on Friday.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Friday that, by land-grabbing in a Serb-majority municipality, Pristina PM Albin Kurti's "occupation gauleiter" in northern Kosovska Mitrovica had taken a new step towards militarisation and occupation of the north of Kosovo-Metohija by Kurti's parapolice.

BELGRADE - Srpska lista, a political organisation of Kosovo-Metohija Serbs, has requested an urgent reaction by international representatives to halt an illegal decision by Pristina's PM Albin Kurti to unlawfully seize monies from a fund for development of the north of Kosovo-Metohija.