North Kosovo

BRUSSELS - Even though people in Brussels know which side is blocking progress in the EU-facilitated Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, they "would never say that publicly," Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has told Brussels-based internet portal Politico.eu.

"The EU and the Americans agree with us," Vucic said in an interview.

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.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Employees of Serbian institutions in Kosovska Mitrovica were again denied access to their workplaces by the so-called Kosovo Police, which is still blocking municipal buildings in the north of Kosovo-Metohija after raiding and closing them on Friday.

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.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Several thousand Kosovo-Metohija Serbs held a peaceful protest in the north of Kosovska Mitrovica on Wednesday over Pristina's announcement the town's main bridge on the Ibar River would be opened to traffic.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Monday the so-called Kosovo Police had raided and seized Post of Serbia offices in the north Kosovo-Metohija municipalities of Leposavic, Kosovska Mitrovica, Zvecan and Zubin Potok earlier in the day in a coordinated and illegal operation that was unilateral and not in line with any agreement.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Friday Pristina's PM Albin Kurti had illegally opened a police station in Socanica, a completely Serb municipality in the north of Kosovo-Metohija, to intimidate the local Serb population.

JARINJE - The so-called Kosovo Police apprehended a Serb man at the Jarinje administrative crossing on Wednesday for allegedly showing a counterfeit freight transport document of Pristina's ministry of environment and spatial planning.

The man, who is a Serbian national, was apprehended on orders from the prosecutor's office, the so-called Kosovo Police said in a statement.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Wednesday many lies had been told about the Banjska incident in the north of Kosovo-Metohija, the biggest one being that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic had ordered it.