United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo

ZVECAN - The steering team for the community of Serb municipalities, the head of the Kosovska Mitrovica district and the mayors of the four municipalities in northern Kosovo-Metohija have requested from international representatives in the province that Oliver Ivanovic be immediately transferred from a detention unit in Pristina to a detention unit in Kosovska Mitrovica.

NATO and Serbia strive to strengthen co-operation in Kosovo

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Serbia's Minister without Portfolio in charge of Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Aleksandar Vulin said Sunday that he is concerned about the health of Citizens' Initiative 'Serbia, Democracy, Justice' leader Oliver Ivanovic and asked who will be responsible if anything happens to him.

CACAK – Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic said Saturday that the Brussels-based talks with Pristina will resume after Serbia’s March elections.

He told a press conference in Cacak, central Serbia, that the recent arrest of Oliver Ivanovic, leader of the Citizens’ Initiative ‘Serbia, Democracy, Justice’ is harmful to Belgrade-Pristina relations.

BRUSSELS - The next round of the talks concerning the normalization of the relations between Belgrade and Pristina has not been scheduled yet and it is unknown when it will be held, Maja Kocijancic, spokesperson of the EU High Representative Catherine Ashton, told reporters on Friday.

BRUSSELS - The situation in Crimea cannot be compared to Kosovo, spokesperson of the European Commission Alejandro Munoz said on Friday.

There is no room for comparison between Crimea and Kosovo, he told reporters in comment to Russian President Vladimir Putin's statements about similarities between NATO's intervention in Kosovo and Russia's in Crimea.

Atmosphere at Croatia-Swtzerland match and St Galen | Photo: Beta/AP

Serbia's Football Association, FSS, has written to FIFA, asked it to cancel a decision to allow Kosovo's national team to play friendly matches.

The FSS said the Serbian flag was set on fire before Kosovo's first such friendly, played in Mitrovica, northern Kosovo, against Haiti.

STRPCE - Five Serbs from the southern Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) town of Strpce who were arrested on Tuesday were put under house arrest for up to 30 days.

Among the arrested Serbs, four are members of the Kosovo police.

"Kosovo armed forces unacceptable to Serbia"

BELGRADE -- The Serbian government expressed its "concern over the decision by the provisional authorities in Kosovo to form Kosovo armed forces and a defense ministry."

BELGRADE - The Football Association of Serbia (FSS) has sent a letter of protest to Sepp Blatter, president of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), urging the organization to revoke the decision that allowed Kosovo-Metohija to play friendly matches.