Kosovo Security Force

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Tuesday Pristina's PM Albin Kurti was doggedly trying to find an excuse for violence against the Serbs by criminalising the north of Kosovo-Metohija.

BELGRADE - Serbian Defence Minister Milos Vucevic said on Tuesday Serbia would adequately respond to a military agreement between Turkey and the so-called Kosovo.

Responding to questions from reporters at the Topcider army barracks in Belgrade, Vucevic said the deal was a continuation of Turkey's cooperation with the so-called Kosovo.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday he was considering launching a probe into illegal arms supplies to Pristina without getting Serbia into a difficult position.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said at the weekend he expected the new Serbian government to be formed in March and announced that he would this week unveil the greatest-ever development programme for Serbia that would be similar to the post-WWII Marshall Plan.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija Milovan Drecun said on Friday the ultimate objective of arms supplies to Pristina was to create the conditions for NATO membership of the so-called Kosovo and complete its so-called statehood.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - A sign reading "KLA" - short for "Kosovo Liberation Army" - has been erected on a hill overlooking Kosovska Mitrovica.

The large red sign can be seen on the Crnusa hill, designated by local authorities in the southern, ethnic Albanian-populated part of Kosovoska Mitrovica as the site of a new Kosovo Security Force base, the RTS reported.

BELGRADE - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday in Belgrade the so-called Kosovo Security Force had no NATO support to arm itself and that its transition to an army was "ill-timed and ill-advised."

Stoltenberg said this in an exclusive interview to Tanjug, in response to a question why NATO was allowing the so-called KSF to arm itself and buy UAVs.

BRUSSELS - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday evening that, under UNSCR 1244, Kfor and NATO had no right to support the creation of an army of the so-called Kosovo.

Vucic was speaking to reporters in Brussels after a series of meetings with European officials about the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.

WASHINGTON - Serbian Ambassador to the US Marko Djuric said on Thursday support to a transformation of the so-called Kosovo Security Force into an army did not contribute to dialogue, defusing of tensions and normalisation of Belgrade-Pristina relations.

BELGRADE - Commenting on upcoming high-level talks in the Brussels dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday problems were "building up."