Pristina government

BRUSSELS - The next meeting of chief negotiators of Belgrade and Pristina will be held in Brussels on Tuesday, March 19, European Commission spokesperson Peter Stano confirmed on Friday.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic held an urgent meeting with several government ministers on Tuesday evening after Pristina's PM Albin Kurti rejected a proposal by the US, the EU and Quint states and decided instead that a ban on the Serbian dinar in Kosovo-Metohija begin on Wednesday, sources in the Presidency of Serbia told Tanjug.

BELGRADE - Tanjug reporter Andjelko Utjesanovic, who was on Wednesday denied entry to Kosovo-Metohija, says claims by the so-called Kosovo Police that he was allowed to enter the territory are untrue.

MERDARE - Tanjug reporter Andjelko Utjesanovic was denied entry to Kosovo-Metohija by the so-called Kosovo Police at the Merdare administrative crossing on Wednesday afternoon.

Utjesanovic was to report on Serbian Patriarch Porfirije's visit to Serbian holy sites in Kosovo-Metohija.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The central pharmacy of the Kosovska Mitrovica hospital is running out of medications and a humanitarian disaster is looming, hospital director Zlatan Elek told Tanjug on Tuesday.

Elek said Pristina PM Albin Kurti's government was adamant in refusing to allow deliveries of medications to the hospital.

The Eparchy of Raka-Prizren Diocese announced that it has confidential information that the Pristina government intends to initiate a series of actions aimed at further discrediting the Serbian Orthodox Church.
As stated, they will do so by planting false evidence and further inciting ethnic and religious intolerance.

WASHINGTON - Serbian Ambassador to Washington Marko Djuric has called for urgent action to prevent tragedy in Kosovo-Metohija in the wake of the most recent decisions by the Pristina government, which he noted were aimed at a forceful expulsion of Serbs from the province.

Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama said on Thursday that he has sent a proposal to France's President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for the statute of the Association of Serb-Majority Municipalities in Kosovo - a move that was not well-received by the Pristina authorities.

The EU special envoy for dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, Miroslav Lajak, said tonight that he and the US special envoy for the Western Balkans, Gabriel Escobar, asked the prime minister of the temporary institutions of Pristina, Albin Kurti, to calm down the situation in northern Kosovo, hold new elections and return to dialogue.

The document "De-escalation in four northern municipalities - a step by step scenario" was published immediately after French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, requested the urgent holding of new elections in four municipalities in the north of Kosovo.