Pristina

BELGRADE - Serbian Ambassador to Washington Marko Djuric says a bill on support for the Brussels Agreement that has recently been tabled to the US Congress made US support to the Pristina authorities directly conditional upon the establishment of a Community of Serb Municipalities.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija Milovan Drecun said on Friday Serbs in the province were particularly concerned over the fact Pristina was expediting the process of introducing compulsory military service.

BELGRADE - Tanjug reporter Andjelko Utjesanovic, who was on Wednesday denied entry to Kosovo-Metohija, says claims by the so-called Kosovo Police that he was allowed to enter the territory are untrue.

BELGRADE - Serbia took over the one-year Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) presidency from Montenegro on Monday, and its Minister of Internal and External Trade Tomislav Momirovic expects to see Pristina's ban on Serbian goods end in 2024.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic has written to the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak in stern protest over Pristina's plan to collect an electricity debt purportedly accumulated by four Serb-majority municipalities in the north of Kosovo-Metohija, diplomatic sources told Tanjug on Friday.

PRISTINA - Pristina's special prosecution office has indicted a Serb man for an alleged war crime.

PRISTINA - The basic court in Pristina has extended the custody for three Serbs arrested following the September 24 clashes in Banjska by a further two months.

The court's spokeswoman told Pristina-based Koha daily the custody had been extended until February 24 at the request of the prosecutor's office of the so-called Kosovo.

"First of all, I want to wish merry Christmas to the Catholics who are celebrating today. Peace, health, happiness at home and a good year. For Christmas, I will answer to the questions from journalists, and today I will present everything that is important for Serbia in the next four years," the president said at the beginning of his address.

VRBAS - Obliterating the name Banjska, as well as the Rajska banja spa complex - in which Belgrade has invested considerably - is what Pristina would like the most, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Tuesday Pristina's raid of the Rajska banja resort at Banjska near Zvecan earlier in the day was a part of a plan aimed at ethnically cleansing Serbs from the province.