Kosovo

BRUSSELS - No trilateral meeting was held in Tuesday's round of the EU-facilitated Belgrade-Pristina dialogue in Brussels after Pristina rejected the meeting in spite of Belgrade's insistence on it being held, a source in Belgrade's delegation told Tanjug.

BRUSSELS - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic met with the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak in Brussels on Tuesday as part of a new round of the dialogue.

Petkovic is Belgrade's chief negotiator in the dialogue.

BRUSSELS - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic met with the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak in Brussels on Tuesday as part of a new round of the dialogue.

Petkovic is Belgrade's chief negotiator in the dialogue.

BRUSSELS - A new meeting of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue at chief negotiators' level will be held in Brussels on Tuesday to discuss the way forward in the implementation of the Ohrid Agreement and other issues affecting the normalisation of relations between Belgrade and Pristina, European Commission spokesperson Peter Stano said on Monday.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Friday outlined Serbia's demands and moves regarding the situation in Kosovo-Metohija, divided into five areas.

BELGRADE - The situation in Kosovo-Metohija is worse than ever and deteriorating further every day and Serbs in the province live in conditions similar to apartheid, says Igor Simic, a senior official of Srpska lista, a political organisation of Kosovo-Metohija Serbs.

BELGRADE - A new round of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue at chief negotiators level is scheduled to take place in Brussels on Tuesday.

Even though Belgrade has offered readiness for a trilateral meeting with Pristina, Pristina's chief negotiator Besnik Bislimi has rejected this, diplomatic sources have told Tanjug.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian parliamentary committee on defence and interior affairs Milovan Drecun said on Thursday the timing of Pristina's indictment against 45 people in connection with the September 24, 2023 armed clashes in Banjska, Kosovo-Metohija, showed that Pristina's PM Albin Kurti intended to use it for pre-election political campaigning.

ST PETERSBURG - Serbian Deputy PM Aleksandar Vulin met with Chinese FM Wang Yi in St Petersburg on Wednesday, noting that Belgrade appreciated exceptionally highly China's support for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Serbia and Beijing's principled position of not recognising the false state of so-called Kosovo.

BELGRADE - The chief public prosecutor of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade Nenad Stefanovic said on Wednesday that, from the standpoint of the legal order of the Republic of Serbia, an indictment raised by the so-called Kosovo special prosecution office against 45 people for last year's armed clashes in Banjska, near Zvecan, Kosovo-Metohija, had no relevance whatsoever.