Office for Kosovo-Metohija

BELGRADE - At a meeting with German Ambassador to Belgrade Anke Konrad, the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic warned that an expulsion of Serbs from Kosovo-Metohija and abolition of Serbian institutions in the province were the real reasons behind Pristina's ban on the Serbian dinar, which took effect on February 1.

WASHINGTON - The Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija has issued a memorandum warning that Pristina's ban on the Serbian dinar could have far-reaching consequences for critical sectors such as hospitals, educational institutions and kindergartens, which are vital for the needs of Kosovo-Metohija Serbs, US-based internet news portal The Pavlovic Today reports, quoting diplomatic sources

BELGRADE - The director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic met with Italian Ambassador to Belgrade Luca Gori on Friday, noting that it was clear Pristina's decision to abolish the Serbian dinar as the legal tender in Kosovo-Metohija was aimed at ethnic cleansing of Serbs.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic met with German Ambassador to Belgrade Anke Konrad on Friday to inform her of the position of Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija and noted that, through a series of unilateral moves, Pristina was continuously threatening stability on the ground and the fundamental human rights of Serbs in the province.

BELGRADE - Pristina's termination of payment transactions with central Serbia is perhaps the biggest threat to the survival of Kosovo-Metohija Serbs yet, head of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija Milovan Drecun told Tanjug in a comment on a decision by Pristina to make the euro the only currency for cash transactions and payment transactions.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Thursday Pristina's usurpation of the Rajska banja spa complex near Zvecan was a sheer robbery of private property owned by the Serbian Orthodox Church.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic met with the head of the Western Balkans Division of the German Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs Niels Von Redecker in Belgrade on Thursday.

BELGRADE - Pristina's ban on holding the December 17 Serbian parliamentary elections in the territory of Kosovo-Metohija is not contributing to a calming of the situation, the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said during a meeting with Argentina's Ambassador to Belgrade Osvaldo Marsico on Monday.

BELGRADE - In the December 17 Serbian parliamentary elections, voters from the territory of Kosovo-Metohija will be casting their ballots in central Serbia, the national electoral commission has decided.

They will be voting in the city of Vranje and the Kursumlija, Raska and Tutin municipalities.

PRISTINA - Pristina and its PM Albin Kurti last night banned two assistant directors of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija from entering the province, the Office has confirmed to Tanjug.

Svetlana Miladinov and Igor Popovic were to attend Municipality Day celebrations in Kosovska Mitrovica on Thursday.