Council of Europe

BELGRADE - Serbian FM and First Deputy PM Ivica Dacic confirmed to Tanjug on Friday a team to fight against Pristina's potential admission to the Council of Europe (CoE) had been set up at a government session earlier in the day.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic demanded an urgent establishment of the team at an extraordinary government session on Thursday.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday he had had a sincere and difficult meeting with Germany's Western Balkans envoy Manuel Sarrazin, whom he told Serbia would oppose humiliations prepared for it in the Council of Europe (CoE) and the UN.

BELGRADE - Serbia will send a non-paper to all Council of Europe (CoE) member states in which it will list facts and arguments against the so-called Kosovo's potential admission to the organisation, Belgrade-based Vecernje novosti daily reported on Friday.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said a team that would fight against Pristina's potential admission to the Council of Europe (CoE) would be set up on Friday.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic demanded an urgent establishment of the team at an extraordinary government session on Thursday.

BELGRADE - At a meeting with Swiss Ambassador to Belgrade Urs Schmid, the members of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) noted that potential CoE membership for the so-called Kosovo would be a gross violation of international law and the organisation's statute and principles.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic demanded on Thursday that the government set up a special team to thwart an initiative for the so-called Kosovo's admission to the Council of Europe (CoE), to be debated by the organisation's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) on April 16.

BELGRADE - Danijela Vujicic from the Aleksandar Vucic - Serbia Must Not Stop electoral list was on Tuesday elected head of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija.

Vujicic succeeds longtime chairman Milovan Drecun.

Aleksandar Pavic from the We, A Voice from the People - Branimir Nestorovic list was elected deputy head of the committee.

BELGRADE - At a meeting with the head of the French delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Bertrand Bouyx on Monday, Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said he expected French representatives in the Council of Europe to have more understanding for Serbian arguments at an upcoming session on the so-called Kosovo's request to join the organisation.

BELGRADE - Despite constantly obstructing normalisation on the ground and escalating problems, Pristina has been rewarded with prospects of Council of Europe (CoE) membership, the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said at a meeting with French MP Bertrand Bouyx on Monday.

BELGRADE - Due to the overall geopolitical situation, Serbia is paying a high price, and the country is in an extremely difficult situation through no fault of its own, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday evening.