Municipalities of Kosovo

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met with a group of US senators on Thursday to discuss deepening and development of bilateral economic and political cooperation, relations in the region and other areas of mutual interest.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija Milovan Drecun said on Thursday an initiative to open a Kosovska Mitrovica bridge on the Ibar River to traffic was a part of preparations to occupy the north of Kosovo.

In an appearance on Pink TV, Drecun said the occupation was being planned by Pristina's PM Albin Kurti.

The President of the Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan Drecun, assessed that the initiative to open the bridge on the Ibar is part of the preparations for occupying the north of Kosovo.
This is the plan of the Prime Minister of the temporary institutions of Pristina, Albin Kurti.

PANCEVO - Serbian Progressive Party leader and President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday he was very concerned over the situation in Kosovo-Metohija but that there would be no independent "Kosovo".

The newly elected mayor of the Kosovo-Serb majority municipality of North Mitrovica took his oath of office on Friday in a tense atmosphere following extraordinary local elections a month ago that most local Serbs shunned. 

Erden Atic is a member of the ruling Vetvendosje party, which has few members in the town.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija Milovan Drecun said on Wednesday a destabilisation of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue was aimed at pressuring Serbia into recognising the false state of "Kosovo" and into giving up on a Community of Serb Municipalities as defined by the Brussels Agreement.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Tuesday that, following Monday's round of the Brussels dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, it was "clear as day" that Pristina had no intent of engaging in constructive discussions on a Community of Serb Municipalities or any other aspect of normalisation of relations.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Friday he had discussed with EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak an upcoming round of the Brussels dialogue and the political and security situation in Kosovo-Metohija, with special emphasis on an escalation of tensions in the north of the province by Pristina's PM Alb

BRUSSELS - The EU special representative for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak says a draft statute of the Community of Serb Municipalities, presented by a management team at a May 2 meeting in Brussels, is not final, but that it is "an important starting point for the upcoming discussions on the Chief Negotiators' level."

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija Milovan Drecun says the establishment of a Community of Serb Municipalities will be very difficult to achieve without strong Western pressure on Pristina.