United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo

BELGRADE - Director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric conferred with newly-appointed Ambassador of Great Britain in Belgrade Denis Keefe over the European integration process, and they underscored the exceptional importance of prompt resumption of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.

Kosovo office head: Ministerial positions for Serbs

BELGRADE -- Serbia opted to participate in the Kosovo authorities and take on responsibility and expects Serbs to be given ministerial posts, says Marko Đurić.

ZUBIN POTOK - A protest under the slogan “We are all the same, who of us is next?” will be held in Zubin Potok, northern Kosovo, on Monday over the ungrounded threats of arrests to Serbs, the management team for establishing a community of Serb municipalities in Kosovo-Metohija has stated.

BELGRADE - The internally displaced people (IDPs) from Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) should be offered a chance to return to their homes, although a majority of them who have had the status for the past 15 years now want to stay in central Serbia, officials stated at the gathering organised by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation on Friday.

PRISTINA - Isa Mustafa, leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo (DLK) and candidate of a post-election coalition made up of the DLK, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AFK) and the Initiative for Kosovo, was elected speaker of the Kosovo Assembly Thursday.

DUBROVNIK - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said in Dubrovnik on Tuesday that Serbia has a historic chance to become a member of the EU within a reasonable period of time.

BELGRADE - Ivica Dacic, Serbia's first deputy prime minister and foreign minister, said on Monday in a meeting with Head of EULEX Mission in Kosovo-Metohija Bernd Borchardt that the presence of that and other international actors in Kosovo, such as UNMIK and KFOR, is a guarantor of Serbs' survival in Kosovo-Metohija.

"Serbia will join EU when Kosovo joins UN"

BELGRADE -- German MPs visiting Belgrade last week told the country's officials that Serbia will not start talks to join the EU until it implements the Brussels agreement.

Another message they relayed was that Serbia will not join the EU "until Kosovo becomes a full-fledged member of the UN."

BELGRADE - Kosovo too will take part in the upcoming donor conference in Brussels, Belgrade-based daily Politika reports, and Ivan Mrkic, Serbian president's foreign policy advisor, says that Serbia is dissatisfied with the decision of the European Commission (EC) to invite Pristina to the event.

No agreement in Brussels, talks to resume

BRUSSELS -- Office for Kosovo Director Marko Đurić and Deputy Kosovo PM Edita Tahiri failed to agree on settling the problem related to "Peace Park" in Kosovska Mitrovica.