Kosovo

Djuric to travel to Kosovo "with or without permission"

BELGRADE -- Serbian Government Office for Kosovo Director Marko Djuric has said that he will visit the province despite the fact Pristina did not officially approve it.

BELGRADE - EULEX Chief Gabrielle Meucci has said that, regardless of the guarantees that the Serbian government gave, conditions have not been met for Oliver Ivanovic to be released from detention until the remaining 38 witnesses are heard.

Thaci: There'll be consequences of "Belgrade's refusal"

VIENNA -- Serbia's decision "not to approve" his visit to Belgrade is "contrary to the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue," Hashim Thaci has said.

"It will certainly have its consequences," Thaci, who serves as Kosovo's deputy prime minister and foreign minister, told the Vienna daily Presse.

Bulgarian soldiers are among the best-reputed troops serving in the KFOR forces in Kosovo, the country's President Rosen Plevenliev said on Wednesday.

Meeting Bulgarian troops in Kosovo's capital Pristina, Plevneliev told them their work was being "very highly" assessed.

BELGRADE - Serbia greatly appreciates the work of the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) on the promotion of human rights and protection of rights of Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic said Wednesday.

BELGRADE - Serbia is committed to reforms and a full normalisation of relations with Pristina so that there can be political, economic and security progress in Kosovo-Metohija, the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Marko Djuric said on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Marko Djuric said on Wednesday that he is surprised by MEP Ulrike Lunacek's statement that Serbia should rescind the conviction against Kosovo's Foreign Minister Hasim Taci.

SUBOTICA - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic underscored on Wednesday that the decision on the warrant for the arrest (of Kosovo Minister of Foreign Affairs Hasim Taci) is in the jurisdiction of independent court bodies.

Official comments on idea of annulling verdict against Thaci

BELGRADE -- "Somebody should show an interest in the crimes committed against Serbs in the province (Kosovo)," says Serbian Government Kosovo Office Director Marko Djuric.

SKOPJE - Certain Commander Fljamuri has claimed the responsibility on behalf of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) for late Tuesday's attack on Gosince border watchtower in northern Macedonia and beating of three out of four on-duty police officers, Macedonian online edition of Press24 reported.