STRPCE

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Srpska lista representatives met on Wednesday with US State Department Counsellor Derek Chollet, US special Western Balkans envoy Gabriel Escobar and US Ambassador to Pristina Jeffrey Hovenier.

In a Facebook post, Strpce Mayor Dalibor Jevtic said the representatives had discussed the current political and security situation with the US delegation.

STRPCE- Kosovo Serbs blocked a regional road between Strpce and Urosevac on Friday in protest against a drive-by shooting and wounding of two Serb youths earlier in the day, Tanjug's correspondent on the ground reports.

Around 20 locals from the village of Lower Biti, near the southern Kosovo town of Strpce, were injured on Tuesday during protests against the resumed construction of a hydropower plant on the Lepenc river.

Local citizens who tried to stop the construction of a mini-hydroelectric power plant came under attack as they were trying to protect their rights.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has cancelled a Christmas Eve visit to Strpce, Kosovo-Metohija, Tanjug has learned.

A source in Nikolic's presidential office told Tanjug Thursday a group of his aides, a so-called "advance team", had practically been ill-treated at the administrative crossing earlier in the day by unfair staff.

Kosovo's Minister for Communities and Returns Dalibor Jevtic has said that 704 displaced people returned to Kosovo in 2015, 340 of whom are Serbs.

Minister of Economic Development Hikmete Bajrami signed the 409 million investment contract to develop a tourist centre at Kosovo's main ski resort in Brezovica on Tuesday with a representative of the French consortium MDP Consulting Compagnie des Alpes.

STRPCE - One woman was injured in an incident in which a bus transporting Serb passengers from Belgrade to Strpce was stoned in Banjica, southern Kosovo-Metohija, Strpce Mayor Bratislav Nikolic told Tanjug.

The incident occurred on Friday night, the investigation is underway and the identity of the individuals who stoned the bus is still not known.

BELGRADE - Labor Minister Aleksandar Vulin called on Serbian citizens on Sunday to visit tourist destinations in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) as this province has much to offer, and pointed to Mt. Brezovica and cultural, historical and religious monuments.

Kosovo Serb children in the village of Strpce on Wednesday donned Serbian traditional dress before gathering at the local hall of culture to welcome their guest of honor, the Prime Minister of Serbia.