Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic told Tuesday Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and Kosovo Foreign Minister Hasim Taci they will "not finish their dreams of unification of Albania and Kosovo, no matter who supports them in this."

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic stated on Tuesday that Serbia does not intend to change its stand concerning non-recognition of Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) and will not accept continuous setting of new conditions for EU accession.

GRACANICA - Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Branimir Stojanovic warned on Tuesday that the latest proceedings in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) can jeopardise the survival of Serbs and added that the only solution lies in the constitution of the Community of Serb municipalities.

"Even if we recognized Kosovo, EU wouldn't want us"

BELGRADE -- Serbian Foreign Minister and First Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Dacic has said that Serbia, "even if it recognized Kosovo," would not be able to join the EU.

The reason for this, he told the Russian website Sputnik in an interview, is that "there will always be some new conditions."

Albanian PM's statement is "attack on peace"

BELGRADE -- Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djuric says Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama's latest statement represent "an attack on peace."

Rama warned the EU that unless Albania and Kosovo unify through membership in that organization, they would do so "in the classic way."

BELGRADE - Kosovo and Albania will never unite, Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday in reaction to Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama's statement.

Serbian parliamentarians in Kosovo who have been boycotting the country's institutions for more than two months on Monday signalled that they may call it off if a deal signed with Kosovo's ruling parties is honoured in full.

"Church icons stolen in Kosovo sold to finance terrorism"

BELGRADE -- Some of the icons pillaged from the 35 Serbian Orthodox churches targeted in Kosovo in March 2004 have been sold in the black market.

The violence in Kosovo, known in Serbia as "the March pogrom," was organized by ethnic Albanians and targeted Serbs, their property, and holy places.

BELGRADE - Director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric said on Sunday that a draft resolution on the genocide that Serbia had allegedly committed against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo was proposed by the people with a guilty conscience because of their own role in the 1998-99 armed conflict.

BELGRADE - Director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric wished a Happy Easter to Archbishop of Belgrade Stanislav Hocevar and Roman Catholic believers on Saturday.

Djuric also extended special greetings for the biggest Christian holiday to Catholic believers in Kosovo-Metohija who celebrate Easter on Sunday, according to the Gregorian calendar.