Municipalities of Kosovo

HAMBURG - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday in Hamburg Pristina would keep doing everything in its power and even use tricks to deny entry to goods from central Serbia but that Germany would continue to insist on free movement of goods and services.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Milos Vucevic said on Friday Serbia was not giving up on the political fight for its autonomous province of Kosovo-Metohija and that there would be no pogroms or expulsions of Serbs, but that the Serbian university in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica could be Pristina's next target.

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.

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.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Serbian Democracy leader Aleksandar Arsenijevic was arrested by Pristina's police in northern Kosovska Mitrovica on Tuesday, Tanjug's correspondent reported.

The so-called Kosovo Police has still not confirmed the reasons for the arrest.

PRISTINA - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak said in Pristina on Friday an agreement had been reached on the next Brussels meeting of the chief negotiators of Belgrade and Pristina, but did not specify a date.

Kosovo police prevented Kosovo Serbs from accessing their workplaces in front of the Mitrovica municipality building, which was forcefully closed on Friday, according to Tanjug. Kosovo Serbs gathered outside the building, seeking entry to their offices, but were blocked by police, who had arrived with jeeps.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The so-called Kosovo Police, which raided and illegally closed the building of the Kosovska Mitrovica provisional municipal authority on Friday, denied entry to the building on Monday to Serb employees who attempted to go to their workplaces.

The employees gathered outside the building and police SUVs are deployed in the area, a Tanjug correspondent reports.

VRBAS - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday evening Pristina wanted to seize an opportunity to provoke clashes in Kosovo-Metohija before the US elections in order to drag Serbia into a conflict with NATO.

PRISTINA - The head of the OSCE mission in Kosovo-Metohija, Michael Davenport, said on Wednesday recent events - the closure of post offices in municipalities in the north of Kosovo-Metohija and "renewed proposals" by Pristina to open to traffic a bridge on the Ibar River in Kosovska Mitrovica - had underlined the urgency of returning to the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.