Kosovo Albanians

BELGRADE - Commenting on the closure of Post of Serbia branch offices in Kosovo-Metohija, Serbian Minister of Labour, Employment and Veteran and Social Affairs Nemanja Starovic said on Wednesday Pristina PM Albin Kurti's moves reflected a pattern of unilateral measures that drew only verbal condemnations by the US and the EU but no concrete measures.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday evening Pristina PM Albin Kurti's behaviour was an attempt of starting a conflict of war and that Kurti was doing that in an organised manner with support from some Western powers, while Belgrade wanted to preserve peace.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Milos Vucevic said on Wednesday that, regardless of the outcome of the US presidential elections, no drastic change was to be expected when it comes to the US policy on Kosovo-Metohija.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Wednesday Pristina was killing the dialogue with Belgrade and that Pristina's chief negotiator Besnik Bislimi had refused to discuss all topics during Tuesday's round of dialogue in Brussels.

BRUSSELS - Belgrade's delegation headed by the Director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic met with the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak and his team in Brussels on Tuesday afternoon.

Previously, Lajcak also met with a Pristina delegation led by Pristina's chief negotiator Besnik Bislimi.

BRUSSELS - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak has announced he would convene the chief negotiators of the two parties in Brussels on Tuesday "to work out concrete steps" to unblock the implementation of an agreement on the path to normalisation of relations.

BRUSSELS - A trilateral meeting of EU special envoy Miroslav Lajcak and the chief negotiators of Belgrade and Pristina, Petar Petkovic and Besnik Bislimi, began in Brussels on Thursday morning as part of a new round of the EU-facilitated Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.

"We have several proposals for a declaration, we'll see... The only thing I can say is that I will stick to the principles adopted by the National Security Council of the Republic of Serbia two years ago," Vui told the gathered journalists.

BRUSSELS - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said in Brussels Belgrade's delegation in Tuesday's round of the dialogue with Pristina had demonstrated full commitment to solve problems and that a solution must be found to ensure dinar payments to Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija.

BELGRADE - The outgoing chairman of Serbia's parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija Milovan Drecun said on Wednesday Pristina's PM Albin Kurti was constantly creating obstacles in the dialogue with Belgrade through unilateral moves aimed against the survival of Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija.