Government of Kosovo

"Serbia will join EU when Kosovo joins UN"

BELGRADE -- German MPs visiting Belgrade last week told the country's officials that Serbia will not start talks to join the EU until it implements the Brussels agreement.

Another message they relayed was that Serbia will not join the EU "until Kosovo becomes a full-fledged member of the UN."

The authorities set up tents on Monday in towns across Kosovo, excluding Serb-majority areas, where people could sign the petition calling on the UN to finally establish the facts about rapes by Serbian fighters during the 1998-99 war.

BELGRADE - Kosovo too will take part in the upcoming donor conference in Brussels, Belgrade-based daily Politika reports, and Ivan Mrkic, Serbian president's foreign policy advisor, says that Serbia is dissatisfied with the decision of the European Commission (EC) to invite Pristina to the event.

Report: 70,000 residents of Kosovo sought asylum in EU

PRIŠTINA -- "About 70,000 citizens from Kosovo have sought asylum in the EU," the Priština-based Albanian language daily Zeri is reporting on Thursday.

The newspaper described this as "a cancer" when it comes to Kosovo's visa liberalization bid.

BELGRADE - Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic denied Wednesday the claims that Kosovo became a full-fledged member of the South-East Europe Cooperation Process (SEECP).

PM to travel to Russia, Kosovo did not join SEECP

BELGRADE -- Foreign Minister and Ivica Dačić said on Wednesday that Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić would meet with top Russian officials in Moscow next week.

They would discuss relations between the two nations and the economy, Dačić announced during his regular monthly news conference in Belgrade.

BRUSSELS - The EU will not send a high-ranking official as an envoy to Pristina to discuss the formation of a new Kosovo government with the local political leaders, Maja Kocijancic, spokesperson of EU High Representative Catherine Ashton, has told Tanjug.

EU denies plans to send envoy to Priština

BRUSSELS -- The EU will not send a high-ranking official as an envoy to Priština to discuss the formation of a new Kosovo government with the local political leaders.

This was announced on Tuesday by Maja Kocijančič, spokesperson of EU High Representative Catherine Ashton.

Kosovo arrests three for terrorism, alleged connections with ISIL

Liaison officer says ban was "grave violation of deal"

BELGRADE -- Dejan Pavićević says the fact he was banned from entering Kosovo constitutes "serious obstruction of the implementation of what has been agreed in Brussels."