Peter Stano

PRISTINA - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak said on Tuesday he had held separate meetings with US Ambassador Jeff Hovenier and other diplomatic representatives in the so-called Kosovo, as well as with the Kfor command and officials of opposition parties in Pristina.

BRUSSELS - EU spokesman Peter Stano said on Monday the EU had tabled a "balanced" proposal on the establishment of a Community of Serb Municipalities at the most recent Brussels meeting with leaders of Belgrade and Pristina and that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Pristina's PM Albin Kurti had hinted a readiness in principle to accept the proposal.

At separate meetings, they will talk with European officials who mediate in the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina. The meetings are scheduled to start at 2 p.m.
According to the announcements from Brussels, there will be no dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, but Aleksandar Vui and Albin Kurti will meet separately with European officials.

Vui and the prime minister of the temporary institutions in Pristina, Albin Kurti, were invited to the talks in Brussels, which will be held on the sidelines of the European Union leaders' summit at the end of the week, EU spokesman Peter Stano confirmed.

"If there are no punishments and sanctions for Serbia after what they have done, there will definitely be no dialogue. We will end up without success in managing the crisis and we will completely forget about normalization," said Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti.

BRUSSELS - Officials of Belgrade and Pristina are due to hold separate meetings with EU officials in Brussels on Thursday, a source in the EU told Tanjug on Tuesday.

The source said the two parties would not hold a joint high-level meeting.

Details about the place and time of the meetings are yet to be announced.

BRUSSELS - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak will travel to Belgrade and Pristina on October 21 with the foreign policy and security advisers of the French president, the German chancellor and the Italian PM - Emmanuel Bonne, Jens Plattner and Francesco Tallo - and US special Western Balkans envoy Gabriel Escobar for meetings with Serbian President Aleksand

BRUSSELS - Commenting on Wednesday's arrest of three Kosovo-Metohija Serbs by Pristina's police, EU spokesperson Peter Stano said on Thursday the EU was following the situation in the north of Kosovo-Metohija very closely and would react if and when appropriate.

The European Commission condemned on Tuesday an assault on UN peacekeepers by Turkish Cypriot security personnel inside the UN buffer zone dividing Cyprus last Friday.

This was announced by the Office for Media Cooperation of the President of the Republic of Serbia.
The President of Serbia will also have a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg today in Brussels.
The conversation was initiated by President Vui last week in order to convey everything about the situation in Kosovo to Stoltenberg.