North Kosovo

NEW YORK - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said in the UN Security Council on Monday the Serbs had met all the difficult obligations from the Brussels Agreement with Pristina but that, after 11 years, the establishment of a Community of Serb Municipalities was "not even on the horizon."

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said Monday's UN Security Council session on the work of UNMIK, the UN mission in Kosovo-Metohija, was another opportunity for Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to highlight all fundamental principles advocated by Serbia and point out all problems faced by Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija.

BELGRADE - Commenting on the latest beating of a Kosovo-Metohija Serb by Pristina's police, the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Monday beatings and arrests of Serbs were evidently "values" that were a "recommendation" for the so-called Kosovo's Council of Europe (CoE) admission.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic met with UNMIK chief Caroline Ziadeh in Belgrade on Friday to discuss an upcoming UN Security Council session on Kosovo-Metohija and the permanently difficult position of Serbs in the province, drastically worsened by Pristina's most recent unilateral moves.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic said on Wednesday that, 11 years after the signing of the Brussels Agreement, Pristina had still not established a Community of Serb Municipalities.

BELGRADE - At a meeting with the head of the French delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Bertrand Bouyx on Monday, Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said he expected French representatives in the Council of Europe to have more understanding for Serbian arguments at an upcoming session on the so-called Kosovo's request to join the organisation.

NEW YORK - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic said on Monday an upcoming Council of Europe (CoE) session on the so-called Kosovo's admission to the organisation had been called to secure independence for the so-called Kosovo and was a follow-up to the 1999 NATO aggression on the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

BELGRADE - The director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic met on Tuesday with the head of the Department for Continental Europe of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Brice Roquefeuil to inform him of threats to Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija, especially following Pristina's decision to ban the Serbian dinar.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - A Serbian flag believed to have been removed from the Zvecan Fortress in the north of Kosovo-Metohija last night has been put back into place, a Tanjug correspondent reported.

It remains unknown who, and when, removed the tricolour flag and its post.

Citizens indicate that they have problems due to the decision of Prishtina to abolish payment transactions in dinars, because in the last few days they have received payments of social assistance, child allowance, as well as salaries from central Serbia, but that they cannot get that money and they are worried about where way will provide the basic necessities of life.