Kosovo Albanians

BELGRADE - Pristina's ban on holding the December 17 Serbian parliamentary elections in the territory of Kosovo-Metohija is not contributing to a calming of the situation, the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said during a meeting with Argentina's Ambassador to Belgrade Osvaldo Marsico on Monday.

PRISTINA - Pristina and its PM Albin Kurti last night banned two assistant directors of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija from entering the province, the Office has confirmed to Tanjug.

Svetlana Miladinov and Igor Popovic were to attend Municipality Day celebrations in Kosovska Mitrovica on Thursday.

Earlier today, Lajak met with the director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petkovi.
Last week, Lajcak was in Pristina, where he pointed out that the goal of his visit was to lay the foundations for the upcoming meeting of the main negotiators, which was announced for November 16.

Selmanaj said that Kurti is the person who fights the most against Albanian patriotism and nationalism.

BRUSSELS - The next technical-level meeting of the chief negotiators of Belgrade and Pristina, Petar Petkovic and Besnik Bislimi, will be held in Brussels on November 16, diplomatic sources have told Tanjug.

The parties last met in Brussels on October 26, when EU representatives held separate meetings with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Pristina's PM Albin Kurti.

She will meet with Serbian President Aleksandar Vui and Prime Minister Ana Brnabi.
Vui and Von der Leyen will first have a face-to-face meeting at the Palace of Serbia, followed by a meeting with members of the two delegations.

BRUSSELS - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak has announced he would invite the chief negotiators in the dialogue to Brussels soon for discussions about the next steps and said the focus should now be on advancing an agreement on the path to normalisation without preconditions or delays.

BRUSSELS - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic's meeting with European officials in Brussels concluded shortly after 3 pm on Thursday.

Previously, the European officials spoke with Pristina's PM Albin Kurti.

Immediately after the meeting, Kurti left without speaking to the media, a Tanjug reporter said.

At separate meetings, they will talk with European officials who mediate in the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina. The meetings are scheduled to start at 2 p.m.
According to the announcements from Brussels, there will be no dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, but Aleksandar Vui and Albin Kurti will meet separately with European officials.

"If there are no punishments and sanctions for Serbia after what they have done, there will definitely be no dialogue. We will end up without success in managing the crisis and we will completely forget about normalization," said Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti.