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BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said that while dialogue between Belgrade and Brussels is necessary, Serbia should adopt a different approach to these negotiations and try to learn what future the EU authorities have in store for the country.

BELGRADE - Dialogue is always possible, and necessary to build a stronger European society, said the participants of the 6th Belgrade Security Forum, which concluded Friday.

BELGRADE - The cultural heritage in Kosovo must not be used as a "political football" and both sides must acknowledge the destruction of cultural and religious monuments in the past, Karima Bennoune, UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, told a press conference in Belgrade Friday.

BELGRADE - Thursday's debate between Serbian and Albanian PMs Aleksandar Vucic and Edi Rama at the Belgrade Security Forum was marked by opposing views on Kosovo and the Trepca mining complex.

BELGRADE - Belgrade will carry on the dialogue with Pristina "in a very passionate way" as it is a precondition for economic development of the entire region and better living standards of the Serbian people, PM Aleksandar Vucic said Thursday.

BELGRADE - Following unilateral acts by the Pristina authorities, the level of Belgrade's trust in Pristina and its capacity to negotiate in good faith is understandably lower, the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Marko Djuric on Wednesday told Simona-Mirela Miculescu, the representative of the UN Secretary-General and head of the UN Office in Belgrade
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Vucic said on Tuesday that the Serbian government rejected Pristina's decision to put the Trepca complex in the Serb-majority north of Kosovo under its control.

"This mining complex is vital for the survival of Serbs in the north of Kosovo… For us, this decision is null and void," Vucic told a press conference in Belgrade.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government has sent a letter to Brussels explaining all the harmful consequences of the Kosovo Assembly decision on the Trepca mining complex, Politika reports.

It was the first step relying on legal and political instruments and democratic, parliamentary and extra-parliamentary methods aimed at protecting Serbia's property in Kosovo, the daily reported.

SENTA - Serbia will continue the discussions with Pristina on the agreement on telecommunications and try to improve the situation, PM Aleksandar Vucic said Thursday.

"We will have many more contacts, we will talk to everyone, and try to see if there is anything we can improve or everything is set in stone, in layman's terms," Vucic told reporters in Senta, northern Serbia.

BELGRADE - Serbia is a strong partner of the Council of Europe (CoE) in tackling many problems, in particular as regards regional stability and the migrant crisis, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and the President of the CoE Parliamentary Assembly Pedro Agramunt said after a meeting on Tuesday.