Community of Serb Municipalities

BRUSSELS - A bilateral meeting of Belgrade and EU delegations, headed by the director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic and EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak, respectively, was concluded in Brussels on Monday afternoon.

Earlier, the EU representatives met with Pristina's delegation, headed by Besnik Bislimi.

BRUSSELS - A bilateral meeting of EU representatives with Pristina's delegation is underway in Brussels, to be followed by a Belgrade-EU bilateral meeting.

The meeting with the Pristina delegation began following the conclusion of a trilateral meeting of Belgrade, Pristina and EU representatives after over 3.5 hours of discussions.

BRUSSELS - A meeting of chief negotiators in the EU-facilitated Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, Petar Petkovic and Besnik Bislimi, began in Brussels on Monday.

The trilateral meeting is also attended by experts, a Tanjug reporter said.

The delegations of Belgrade and Pristina began the discussions without prior separate bilateral meetings with EU special envoy Miroslav Lajcak.

BELGRADE - The head of Serbia's standing parliamentary delegation to the Council of Europe (CoE) Parliamentary Assembly Biljana Pantic-Pilja said on Friday CoE rapporteur Dora Bakoyannis had recommended that the so-called Kosovo be admitted the organisation, and added that its Committee on Political Affairs would decide on this at an extraordinary session scheduled for March 25.

BELGRADE - The director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic met on Tuesday with the head of the Department for Continental Europe of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Brice Roquefeuil to inform him of threats to Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija, especially following Pristina's decision to ban the Serbian dinar.

BELGRADE - At a meeting with German Ambassador to Belgrade Anke Konrad, the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic warned that an expulsion of Serbs from Kosovo-Metohija and abolition of Serbian institutions in the province were the real reasons behind Pristina's ban on the Serbian dinar, which took effect on February 1.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic met with the UK's Ambassador to Belgrade Edward Ferguson on Tuesday and noted that, on a daily basis, Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija faced political disenfranchisement, constant attacks and attempts to subjugate them to Pristina through violence and non-democratic means.

BRUSSELS - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic met with the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak in Brussels on Monday to discuss all agreements reached to date, with particular emphasis on the establishment of a Community of Serb Municipalities.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic met with Russian Ambassador to Belgrade Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko on Tuesday to discuss the political and security situation in Kosovo-Metohija and problems facing Serbs in the province.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with the UK's special Western Balkans envoy Stuart Peach on Friday to exchange views on current developments in Kosovo-Metohija and the region.