Kosovo–Serbia relations

BELGRADE - The director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic met with the ambassadors of Quint states and the head of the EU Delegation to Serbia on Friday to discuss next week's new round of the Brussels dialogue on Pristina's "unilateral and unlawful decision to ban the dinar and dinar cash operations in Kosovo-Metohija," the Office said in a statement.

BELGRADE - Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday in Belgrade China supported Serbia's endeavours to conduct an independent policy and follow a path of development that suited its own interests, as well as its efforts to preserve its sovereignty and territorial integrity regarding the Kosovo-Metohija issue.

The situation in the Western Balkans is (once again) cause for concern. In Kosovo, tensions between the ethnic-Albanian majority and ethnic Serbs are a near-daily occurrence, while in North Macedonia, the nationalist VMRO-DPMNE party is expected to win in presidential and parliamentary elections.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Tuesday Pristina's PM Albin Kurti was doggedly trying to find an excuse for violence against the Serbs by criminalising the north of Kosovo-Metohija.

BELGRADE - The director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Monday the establishment of a Community of Serb Municipalities was the backbone of the Brussels Agreement and that Pristina had rejected Belgrade's constructive proposal of a draft statute of the Community.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija said on Friday the Albin Kurti-led authorities in Pristina had banned its Director Petar Petkovic from entering Kosovo-Metohija to spend the Orthodox Easter holidays with Serbs in the province.

BELGRADE - At a meeting with ambassadors and representatives of Quint states and the head of the EU Delegation to Belgrade, the director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic conveyed Belgrade's clear message that a Community of Serb Municipalities, which is 11 years overdue, must be established in Kosovo-Metohija.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Designate Milos Vucevic said on Wednesday evening Serbia had its "red lines" and that there could be neither a de iure nor a de facto recognition of the so-called Kosovo.

BELGRADE - In an attempt to brazenly whitewash her complete disregard for the blatant transgressions of Albin Kurti's regime in front of the Greek and Serbian people and the broader European public, Council of Europe (CoE) rapporteur Dora Bakoyannis has taken a further embarrassing step, says Serbian Ambassador to the US Marko Djuric.

BELGRADE - The director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic on Wednesday slammed Council of Europe (CoE) rapporteur Dora Bakoyannis over an article in which she said numerous reforms had been requested from the so-called Kosovo, without mentioning Pristina's violations of the rights of Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija and failure to meet its obligations, including establ