North Kosovo

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Two Serbs were arrested in the north of Kosovo-Metohija on Wednesday.

Ilija Elezovic was arrested in Kosovska Mitrovica, his son Nikola confirmed to Tanjug, adding that the arrest had taken place near a local secondary school this morning.

"We have not been told why he was arrested or where he is," Nikola Elezovic said.

BRUSSELS - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday that, under the Brussels Agreement, Leposavic, as well as Kosovska Mitrovica and Zvecan, was a part of a Community of Serb Municipalities in Kosovo-Metohija and that the establishment of an ethnic Albanian association of municipalities was a "circus show."

BELGRADE - Commenting on upcoming high-level talks in the Brussels dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday problems were "building up."

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Srpska lista leader Goran Rakic said on Tuesday he had met with the new head of the Eulex mission Giovanni Pietro Barbano to discuss a withdrawal of special units from the north of Kosovo-Metohija and greater presence of Eulex and Kfor patrols.

This was published by the Albanian portal Mitropol Media.
"After 24 years, for the first time, the Kosovo Fishermen's Association is conducting control on Lake Gazivode," Mitropol Media announced on Facebook yesterday.
As can be seen in the photos published by the Albanian media on Facebook, there were several members of the alliance in the boat, as well as two policemen.

NOVI PAZAR - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday it was hard to find a solution in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue in talks with people who did not want to seek a solution but were looking for reasons for conflicts and attacks on Serbs.

The portal referred to the words of an EU official that the Union is still concerned about the tensions in the north of Kosovo, and that it calls on both sides to urgently de-escalate.

Asked about the thesis circulating in some media, that British intelligence officers are setting the conditions for the alleged war in the north of Kosovo and Metohija, he said that he does not think that London has a reason for unrest.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Pristina's police confirmed to Tanjug on Friday a Kosovo-Metohija Serb arrested at the Jarinje administrative crossing earlier in the day had been released from detention.

Previously, the deputy chief of the so-called Kosovo Police for Region North said the arrestee, a man identified by the initials B L, had been detained for "possession of narcotics."

BELGRADE - The Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija said on Friday Pristina's special police forces had arrested a Serb from Leposavic at the Jarinje administrative crossing for no reason and without any grounds.