Pristina

Whatever UNESCO's Executive Board decides on Pristina's bid to join the organization "Serbia will continue the fight for the recommendation to be rejected."

This is what Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Wednesday.

SPC monastery Visoki Decani Abbot Sava Janjic has told B92 that Pristina's membership in UNESCO would be very dangerous for the Serb cultural heritage.

"It is a very dangerous situation in which the future of our heritage, of our entity and all that we have comes under a big question mark," Janjic said.

German ambassador Dittmann: "No new conditions for Serbia on her way to the EU"

There are no new conditions for the continuation of Serbia's EU integration nor demands to recognize Kosovo, says German Ambassador Axel Dittmann.

In addition, he stressed that Germany "supports the opening of chapters 35 and 32 in Serbia's EU membership talks next year."

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic says he hopes SANU President Vladimir Kostic will attend a meeting with President Nikolic and Patriarch Irinej.

Furthermore, Vucic expects the meeting to harmonize efforts on the diplomatic battle against Pristina's attempt to join UNESCO, "and efforts to preserve national interests."

Ahead of UNESCO's executive board meeting which will consider Pristina's membership bid next week, President Nikolic on Friday appealed to 80 diplomats in Belgrade not to let Kosovo join.

Opposition in Kosovo pressed the government in Pristina demanding that agreements reached with Belgrade in Brussels and be abandoned.

The parties said the protests they were staging in the Pristina parliament would not stop until Pristina's signatures were withdrawn from those documents as well as from the agreement on the demarcation with Montenegro.

Opposition party MPs set off three tear gas canisters in the legislature on Thursday, causing the chamber to be evacuated and the parliamentary session to be halted.

The canisters were brought into parliament despite that fact that MPs were searched on Thursday morning under new security measures introduced after a similar tear-gas attack by opposition lawmakers last week.

Marko Djuric said that what is contentioust is that new conditions are being imposed on Serbia.

Head of the Serbian gov't Office for KiM Marko Djuric said that what is contentious is not that the results of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue are discussed within Chapter 35, but that new conditions are being imposed on Serbia.

Joksimovic: Chapter 35 in Serbia's accession talks with the EU should be no substitute for political dialogue on normalising the Belgrade-Pristina relations

Chapter 35 in Serbia's accession talks with the EU should be no substitute for political dialogue on normalising the Belgrade-Pristina relations, Serbian Minister for European Integrations Jadranka Joksimovic said on Wednesday.

Everything that has been agreed as part of the Brussels agreement will be implemented, but we will not go a step further, says Dacic.