Kosovo government

"Belgrade continues to provide economic aid to Serbs"

BELGRADE -- Belgrade continues to financially help Serbs in Kosovo, but that support should go to development, rather that serve to "pay them to stay (in Kosovo)."

This is what the head of the Serbian government's media office, Milivoje Mihajlović, told B92 TV on Wednesday.

"Important that Serbs take part in government"

BELGRADE -- An agreement has been reached in a meeting with PM Aleksandar Vučić that all those elected on the Serb list in Kosovo "take a united political front."

BELGRADE - Marko Djuric, director of the Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), said on Tuesday that, in a meeting with Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, an agreement has been reached that all MPs of the Serb List in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) take a united political front, underlining that it is important that the Serbs take on a part of the responsibility for running the institutions and take part in th

Police, demonstrators injured during riot in southern KM

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- During Sunday's protests and clashes in the southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica near the main bridge, 13 policemen and six demonstrators were injured.

PM, president to meet with Serbs in Kosovo

BELGRADE -- Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić has said that he and President Tomislav Nikolić will confer with the representatives of Kosovo Serbs next week.

The barricade over the river Ibar in Mitrovica - the most potent symbol of division in Kosovo between Serbs living in the north and Albanians in the south - was taken down late on Tuesday.

The road over the bridge was finally open to traffic on Wednesday after tons of stones and sand were removed overnight.

The Kosovo government said it welcomed the removal of the barricade.

BRUSSELS - The EU Council extended on Thursday the mandate for the EULEX mission in Kosovo until June 14, 2016, upon the exchange of letters between Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga and High EU Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Asthon.

BELGRADE - Vladeta Kostic, head of the electoral headquarters of the Serb list in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), has said that he and Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic have agreed that a meeting should be held between representatives of the list and the prime minister to decide about the participation of Serbs in the Kosovo government.

BELGRADE - Dusan Janjic, director of the forum for ethnic relations, has said on Friday that the Serb voter turnout in the early parliamentary elections in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) will not be high due to a short time frame and a boycott of the campaign in the north of Kosovo.

JAGODINA - Serbia should not be treated as a factor which will solve the Ukrainian crisis since that will be done by great powers, Ivica Dacic, Serbia's first deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, has said.