Kosovo–Serbia relations

BELGRADE - Commenting on upcoming high-level talks in the Brussels dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday problems were "building up."

At the very beginning, Vui congratulated Serbian basketball players for reaching the finals of the World Championship in Manila.
After the good news, he referred to the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, and said that he would travel to Brussels on Wednesday or Thursday for talks with the Pristina delegation.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic announced on Wednesday Serb Dejan Pantic, a former police officer from Kosovo-Metohija who was detained by Pristina authorities last year and subsequently transferred to house arrest, had been released on bail ahead of trial.

Turkish commando battalion deployed in Kosovo upon the request by NATO to assist in quelling violent unrest in the Balkan country has started to return to Türkiye as the mission is completed, the Defense Ministry has announced.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Srpska lista leader Goran Rakic said on Tuesday he had met with the new head of the Eulex mission Giovanni Pietro Barbano to discuss a withdrawal of special units from the north of Kosovo-Metohija and greater presence of Eulex and Kfor patrols.

This was published by the Albanian portal Mitropol Media.
"After 24 years, for the first time, the Kosovo Fishermen's Association is conducting control on Lake Gazivode," Mitropol Media announced on Facebook yesterday.
As can be seen in the photos published by the Albanian media on Facebook, there were several members of the alliance in the boat, as well as two policemen.

PALIC - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday Pristina's PM Albin Kurti intended to arrest all Serbs capable of defending the north of Kosovo-Metohija but that things would not go according to his plan.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Friday Belgrade had always been a responsible party and that, unlike Pristina, it had always accepted invitations to talks from EU facilitators Josep Borrell and Miroslav Lajcak.

The United States, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and Germany are using significant armament of Pristina to use Kosovo Albanians as a tool for NATO to discipline Belgrade. The emergence of the Kosovo army also points to potential instability in the region, according to Sran Graovac, an analyst at the Center for Social Stability.

Senior lawmakers from the United States and Europe are calling for a change in the Western diplomatic approach toward Serbia and Kosovo amid concern that tensions between the two could rapidly spiral out of control.