Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija

BELGRADE - The opposition Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) submitted to the Serbian Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense Tuesday a public announcement about their not consenting to an agreement on the Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) with NATO, signed a few days ago.

"Albanians deserve better than circus politics"

BELGRADE -- Marko Djuric has commented on announcements of "national unification of Albanians" to say that they "deserve more responsible politics."

Nikola Selakovic, Serbian Justice Minister, said Serbia would not "keep quiet" over the potential creation of a "Greater Albania", which Selakovic said Edi Rama, the Albanian Prime Minister had endorsed on Monday.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - A memorial service held early Tuesday in the church of St. Dimitrije in Kosovska Mitrovica, northern Kosovo-Metohija, marked the start of commemorations of the 16th anniversary of the onset of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.

KLINA - The house of Serb Silvija Raskovic, who lives in the Dugonjevo village in the Klina municipality, central Kosovo-Metohija, has been burglarised, which has unsettled Serb returnees in the area, Klina community integration officer Ranko Kostic has said.

Kosovo's Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri, in her latest report on the implementation of the 2013 Brussels Agreement on the normalization of relations with Serbia, has accused Belgrade of delaying implementation of the terms.

BELGRADE - Marko Djuric, head of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija, stated on Monday that people in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) should not be misguided that Serbia will recognize the independence of its southern province.

Pristina "daydreams about Serbia's recognition"

BELGRADE -- Director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo Marko Djuric says that "people should not be fed the illusion about Serbia's recognition of Kosovo."

However, he added, that does not mean that residents in Kosovo and Metohija, both Serbs and Albanians, "should not live together, and live better."

Local mayors in the divided town of Mitrovica are to appeal to the Koosvo government to intervene after the four-year dispute over land rights in Kroi i Vitakut, an Albanian-majority neighbourhood in a Serb-dominated area of the municipality, boiled over again in recent weeks.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The construction of houses launched by ethnic Albanians in the Brdjani neighbourhood in northern Kosovska Mitrovica that caused alarm among Serbs have been interrupted after the talks between the mayors of the southern and northern parts of the city, Goran Rakic and Agim Bahtiri.