North Kosovo

Serb members of Kosovo police ambushed in north

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Unknown perpetrators late on Monday ambushed and opened fire on a patrol of the Kosovo police, wounding three police officers.

According to reports, all three are Serbs.

The incident happened in the village of Banje in the Zubin Potok municipality.

BRUSSELS - A new round of dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina begun in Brussels Monday, and its main themes are judiciary and the setting up of the Community of Serb municipalities (ZSO) in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM).

Bekim Collaku, political adviser to Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, said that Serbia was to blame for the delay in integrating the judicial authorities in Serb-dominated northern Kosovo into Pristina’s system – a commitment made by Belgrade under the EU-brokered deal to normalise relations signed in April 2013.

BELGRADE / BRUSSELS - The 23rd round of the EU-facilitated dialogue on normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina, expected to deal with the issues of judiciary and the setting up of the Community of Serb municipalities (ZSO), will be held in Brussels on Monday.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Dragoljub Delibasic, former police chief in the Serb-majority northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, has been transferred from custody in Pristina to a detention unit in Mitrovica, Irina Gudeljevic, spokeswoman for the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX), said Saturday.

Gudeljevic told Tanjug that the transfer was conducted late on Friday.

Ahead of the next round of Kosovo-Serbia talks in Brussels on normalising relations, government and opposition parties have exchanged barbs on whether last spring's accord with Serbia is delivering results.

Glauk Konjufca, a lawmaker of the opposition nationalistic Vetevendosje movement accused the government of failing to integrate the Serb-dominated northern part of Kosovo.

BELGRADE - The Office for Kosovo -Metohija (KiM) has stated that no referendum on independence was carried out in the territory of KiM, adding that neither Albanians nor Serbs or any other ethnic community living in KiM took part in it.

EU's EULEX mission in Kosovo will be extended by two years, despite resistance by the country's officials.

Lawyers detained in northern Kosovo released

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- By the decision of the Kosovska Mitrovica Basic Court, lawyers Dejan A. Vasić and Faruk Korenica were released from custody on Wednesday.

Tanjug reported this quoting EULEX spokesperson Irina Gudeljevic.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - By the decision of the Kosovska Mitrovica Basic Court, lawyers Dejan A. Vasic and Faruk Korenica were released from custody on Wednesday, EULEX spokesperson Irina Gudeljevic told Tanjug.