Independence of Kosovo

BELGRADE - Serbia's Minister without Portfolio in charge of European Integration Jadranka Joksimovic said Tuesday that the Brussels-based dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina would not result in a peace agreement between "Serbia and Kosovo."

The Serbian authorities say they have located Yusuf Sonmez - who the EU rule of law of mission in Kosovo, EULEX, has accused of people trafficking and organised crime - in Amsterdam.

BELGRADE - Serbia will not sign an international peace accord with Kosovo, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, who is also deputy prime minister, told the Belgrade-based Danas daily.

The daily said that Kosovo's outgoing Prime Minister Hasim Taci has announced that the accord is to be signed soon.

BELGRADE, NEW YORK – Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said that Belgrade is ready to continue the dialogue with Pristina, and stressed that Kosovo is in no position to lecture anyone on international law.

ZVECAN - The councillors of four northern Kosovo municipalities announced on Friday that they would stage peaceful protests against the EULEX Mission which, according to them, is acting contrary to its mandate through political persecution of Serbs.

BELGRADE - On the eve of the International Day of the Disappeared, the Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) called on the competent provincial authorities, and especially the international community, to use all their powers and make maximum effort to resolve the fate of 1,711 persons gone missing in KiM and punish those responsible for crimes committed in that region.

The issue of a special court to try former Kosovo Albanian fighters is expected to feature in UN Security Council session that meets on Friday to discuss Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's latest quarterly report on Kosovo.

Around 400 Kosovo Albanians protesting about missing persons from the Kosovo war blocked roads in the village of Mushtisht, near Suhareka in western Kosovo, on Thursday, preventing Serbs from visiting a church.

NEW YORK - A UN Security Council (UNSC) meeting to present UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's regular quarterly report on the situation in Kosovo-Metohija will be held in New York on Friday.

Serbia’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic will participate in the meeting.

Stevan Sindjelic, of the special police unit known as the Gendarmerie, died Thursday in Belgrade, after being shot by unknown attackers, reportedly illegal loggers from Kosovo.

Following his death, Nebojsa Stefanovic, the Interior Minister, said Serbia would not tolerate “terrorist attacks on its territory and the police would respond with force to any attack.