Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija

BRUSSELS - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, said on Thursday "some gaps" between proposals by the two parties had been bridged in a new round of the Brussels dialogue earlier in the day and that he planned to continue the discussions soon based on EU ideas for compromise.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday the UN Security Council would hold a regular session on Kosovo-Metohija on April 22 and that he would discuss the situation in the province with French President Emmanuel Macron and at least ten other European leaders.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said in Brussels on Thursday Belgrade's delegation had tabled a balanced, compromise proposal for solving the issue of cash operations in Kosovo-Metohija but that Pristina had shown no willingness for that.

BRUSSELS - A trilateral meeting of EU special envoy Miroslav Lajcak and the chief negotiators of Belgrade and Pristina, Petar Petkovic and Besnik Bislimi, began in Brussels on Thursday morning as part of a new round of the EU-facilitated Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.

BRUSSELS - EU spokesperson Peter Stano said on Tuesday Pristina must urgently deliver on its commitment to form a Community of Serb Municipalities.

BELGRADE - Danijela Vujicic from the Aleksandar Vucic - Serbia Must Not Stop electoral list was on Tuesday elected head of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija.

Vujicic succeeds longtime chairman Milovan Drecun.

Aleksandar Pavic from the We, A Voice from the People - Branimir Nestorovic list was elected deputy head of the committee.

NEW YORK - A UN Security Council session on UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres's new semi-annual report on UNMIK, the UN mission in Kosovo-Metohija, is slated for April 22, according to the UNSC monthly schedule.

The session has been called by Malta, current president of the UNSC.

BELGRADE - At a meeting with the head of the French delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Bertrand Bouyx on Monday, Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said he expected French representatives in the Council of Europe to have more understanding for Serbian arguments at an upcoming session on the so-called Kosovo's request to join the organisation.

BELGRADE - Despite constantly obstructing normalisation on the ground and escalating problems, Pristina has been rewarded with prospects of Council of Europe (CoE) membership, the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said at a meeting with French MP Bertrand Bouyx on Monday.

BELGRADE - The director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Monday Belgrade had understood well the Western policy of double standards after Pristina had not only not been punished for sabotaging the normalisation process but had even been rewarded with prospects of membership in some international organisations.