Kosovo Serbs

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic met with the head of the Western Balkans Division of the German Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs Niels Von Redecker in Belgrade on Thursday.

KRUSEVAC - President of Serbia and Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) member Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday evening he would protect Serbian national and state interests and the interests of Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija to his last breath.

RASKA - Our duty is to protect Serbian holy sites, and the majority of them are in Kosovo-Metohija, Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) leader Ivica Dacic said on Thursday during a visit to Raska, southwestern Serbia, ahead of the December 17 elections.

BELGRADE - National Bank of Serbia (NBS) Governor Jorgovanka Tabakovic says Serbia's banking sector is stable, highly liquid and profitable.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - A Srpska lista delegation headed by the organisation's President Zlatan Elek met with Eulex chief Maj Gen Giovanni Pietro Barbano in Kosovska Mitrovica on Monday to discuss the political and security situation in Kosovo-Metohija.

SKOPJE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic told the OSCE Ministerial Council in Skopje on Thursday Serbs living in Kosovo-Metohija were facing increasingly serious forms of institutional and religious discrimination, security threats and economic uncertainty.

BRUSSELS - EU spokesman Peter Stano said on Wednesday the EU had noted with regret the Pristina authorities had not permitted the customary practice of allowing Kosovo Serbs to vote in the territory of Kosovo-Metohija in Serbian elections and that the decision was not in line with the spirit of dialogue, the principle of protecting the rights of non-majority communities and trust-building betwe

According to the spokeswoman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the temporary institution at the so-called Kosovo continue to destabilize the situation in the southern Serbian province - limiting the rights of the Serbian population.
She said at the weekly briefing that this time Serbs are prohibited from voting in the extraordinary parliamentary elections.

BELGRADE - In the December 17 Serbian parliamentary elections, voters from the territory of Kosovo-Metohija will be casting their ballots in central Serbia, the national electoral commission has decided.

They will be voting in the city of Vranje and the Kursumlija, Raska and Tutin municipalities.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said on Monday attempts to rename Serbian cultural heritage in Kosovo-Metohija to heritage of the so-called Kosovo were an "old narrative" aimed at erasing all traces of Serbian presence in the province and added that, to the best of its ability, Serbia would use all available means to fight against relativisation of history.