Pristina

A group of activists of the Self-Determination party forced their way into the yard of the Kosovo government in Pristina on Friday, the Kosovo police said.

Once inside, they proceeded to puncture the tires on several official vehicles, according to the police.

The Pristina government has not yet started negotiations with the Netherlands, which is expected to host a new Kosovo war crimes court, after the opposition lodged constitutional objections.

Pristina will supply school textbooks to Albanian communities in Serbia while Belgrade will do the same for Serbs in Kosovo, they agreed for the first time since the war in 1999.

A terrorist organization is demanding that authorities in Pristina "withdraw their signature" from the agreement on the Community of Serb Municipalities.

The agreement was reached last month in Brussels during the EU-sponsored Kosovo negotiations.

Rrahim Pacolli has "mixed" up different agreements reached with Belgrade when he decided to freeze the one on insurance, says Edita Tahiri.

Speaking on Wednesday, the Kosovo minister in charge of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue explained that this agreement, reached on June 23, "has nothing to do with those on temporary license plates and freedom of movement."

David McAllister has urged EU to acknowledge the progress in Belgrade-Pristina dialogue by opening the first chapters in the negotiation process with Serbia.

It is time to open the negotiation chapters with Serbia, the EP rapporteur for Serbia said in a brief speech at the EP plenary session in Strasbourg on Monday.

Marko Djuric said on Thursday that he "thinks the time has come for representatives of Belgrade and Pristina to talk directly."

The director of the Serbian Government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija was addressing a conference dubbed "Building Serbian-Albanian Relations" held in the southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has thanked China's Prime Minister Li Keqiang for his country's principled support of Serbia's territorial integrity.

During their meeting in Beijing on Wednesday, Nikolic also thanked him for the support of the Belgrade-Pristina agreement reached through dialogue.

The Kosovo government "has not yet taken a position on whether to allow Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic to arrive in Kosovo."

This has been reported by the Pristina-based Albanian language daily Koha Ditore.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said Thursday that Serbia can start building the 77 km long section of the Nis-Pristina highway in late 2016.

He stressed the importance of cooperation between the European institutions and the regional governments for a speedy start of the construction.