Office for Kosovo-Metohija

BELGRADE  The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Monday Belgrade was always committed to dialogue on solving key issues for the survival of Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija but that Pristina had a problem with dialogue on a Community of Serb Municipalities and on fulfilment of all reached agreements.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija condemned in the strongest terms a death threat to Tanjug journalists emailed to the news agency on Monday.

GRACANICA - An elderly Serb couple was beaten up and robbed in their family home in Gracanica, Kosovo-Metohija, around midnight on Sunday.

After sustaining head injuries in the attack, Dragan and Dusanka Aleksic were found by a neighbour who drove them to the Gracanica hospital, after which they were urgently transported to Pristina for further medical care.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija said on Friday a Serb man had been brutally beaten up and robbed in his home in the Staro Gracko village in the Lipljan municipality in Kosovo-Metohija on Thursday night.

At around midnight, three attackers who were speaking in Albanian tied the victim, Dejan Radic, and beat him up with a stick and robbed him.

BELGRADE - A new round of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue at chief negotiators level is scheduled to take place in Brussels on Tuesday.

Even though Belgrade has offered readiness for a trilateral meeting with Pristina, Pristina's chief negotiator Besnik Bislimi has rejected this, diplomatic sources have told Tanjug.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Milos Vucevic said on Tuesday four young Serb men had been arrested by Pristina's police in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica last night.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The so-called Kosovo Police, which raided and illegally closed the building of the Kosovska Mitrovica provisional municipal authority on Friday, denied entry to the building on Monday to Serb employees who attempted to go to their workplaces.

The employees gathered outside the building and police SUVs are deployed in the area, a Tanjug correspondent reports.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic received a farewell visit from the OSCE Ambassador in Kosovo-Metohija Michael Davenport on Wednesday.

Petkovic took the opportunity to highlight the political and security problems faced by Kosovo-Metohija Serbs on a daily basis, which he said posed a direct threat to their future.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic met with Turkish Ambassador to Belgrade Hami Aksoy on Wednesday to discuss the current situation in Kosovo-Metohija, pointing out that Serbs in the province faced impossible living conditions and were subjected to daily attacks and terror by Albin Kurti's regime.

MERDARE - Pristina authorities arrested a Serb man at the Merdare administrative crossing last night for alleged spreading of racial and religious hatred, the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija said in a statement.