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A Turkish woman stands next to a Turkish flag in queu at the Turkish embassy to cast vote in the Turkish general elections, in Berlin, Germany, 27 April 2023. Photo: EPA-EFE/FILIP SINGER

Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti on Tuesday refused to accept a draft statute for the establishment of an Association of Serb-Majority Municipalities to represent Serbs' interests in Kosovo, claiming it would establish an entity like Bosnia and Herzegovina's Serb-dominated Republika Srpska, whose leaders have repeatedly challenged the legitimacy of their state.

BRUSSELS - A new round of the EU-facilitated Belgrade-Pristina dialogue began in Brussels on Tuesday evening.

The meeting began shortly after 6 pm, with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Pristina's PM Albin Kurti expected to discuss a statute of a Community of Serb Municipalities and a declaration on missing persons.

Kosovo's Supreme Court on Thursday made public its ruling confirming the sentencing of Goran Stanisic to 15 years' imprisonment for war crimes against ethnic Albanian civilians in the town of Lipjan/Lipljan during the Kosovo war in 1999.

The Supreme Court ruling upheld the previous Court of Appeals verdict convicting Serb wartime reservist policeman Stanisic.

The comment actually refers to the withdrawal of the Serbian special forces from participating in the multinational military exercise "Orion 23".
The relations between Belgrade and Athens have been affected by the frost, which is inversely proportional to the spring we are experiencing, Papantoniou assessed.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic noted on Wednesday that the fight for Kosovo-Metohija and the preservation of Serbia's sovereignty and territorial integrity had been the most important segment of his ministry's work in the first six months of the present government's term and would remain so in the future.

NEW YORK - In a new semi-annual report on Kosovo-Metohija, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres welcomed an EU-facilitated agreement on a road map to normalisation of Belgrade-Pristina relations and its implementation annex.

"As for the Council of Europe, we knew they had a majority, they had 33 countries, and we expected 34. We knew from the beginning. These are countries that are members of the EU or candidates and unquestioningly listen to what Brussels and Washington tell them, that was expected ", the president stated.

The Council of Europe voted on Monday to send Kosovo's application for membership to the organization's Parliamentary Assembly.

Ahead of today's extraordinary session of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Hungary opposed the membership of the so-called Kosovo in that organization, Sputnik learns.
Official Budapest does not look favorably on Pristina's initiative for membership in the CE, ever since the initiative was submitted, reports Sputnik.