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BELGRADE - As Belgrade and Pristina resume talks to normalize their relations, the latter's request for its own telephone code present a problematic precedent for China and other countries across the world, Dusan Prorokovic, former state secretary in Serbia's Ministry for Kosovo and Metohija, told Sputnik Serbia on Tuesday.

There was no visible progress or official statements late on Wednesday following three days of this week's Belgrade-Pristina talks on telecommunications.

The SNS party won 67.09 percent of the votes in the Serbian parliamentary elections in Kosovo, the party announced based on 100 percent of ballots processed.

SNS official Marko Djuric, who also heads the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija, told reporters in Belgrade late on Monday that it was "a historic result for the SNS in Kosovo and Metohija."

On the 15 anniversary of the bus bombing in Kosovo that killed 12 Serbs, Marko Djuric said it was "impermissible" that the case has not had a court outcome.

The director of the Serbian Government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija noted that even 15 years after the grave crime, the perpetrators have not been found.

Marko Djuric said on Monday the main topic of the next Brussels meeting would be the implementation of the deal on the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO).

There is no doubt everything should be solved through dialogue, but at a table where there is something for Serbia, too, says Marko Djuric.

This table should not be one "where obligations are issued to Serbia only," the director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija told state broadcaster RTS.

Marko Djuric says the final version of the draft negotiating platform for Chapter 35 in Serbia's EU accession talks "should be made public over the next month."

The director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija spoke on Monday.

Marko Djuric says that the future Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO) in Kosovo is "no threat of any kind to (ethnic) Albanian population."

Its goal, the head of the Serbian Office for Kosovo and Metohija told the state broadcaster RTS, is to "protect Serbs in the province."

Jihadi from Kosovo killed in Syria

PRISTINA -- A Kosovo Albanian from the Klina municipality in Kosovo and Metohija who joined the Islamic State in Syria has been killed.

This is according to the Pristina-based Albanian language daily Express, which named the person as Ekrem Hasani.

BELGRADE - President Tomislav Nikolic said he is not very optimistic after his talks with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, as he did not hear from him that the chapters in the negotiations with the EU will be opened this year.