Kosovo

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said on Friday no Serbian authority or official, or anyone who could be associated with Serbia, had been involved in a recent incident in which a canal at Zubin Potok, northern Kosovo-Metohija, was damaged by an explosion.

Speaking to the RTS, Dacic said Serbian police had received no query from Pristina regarding that criminal act.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Marko Djuric said "deeply troubling scenes" had unfolded in the Pristina provisional institutions' assembly on Thursday as Srpska lista representatives were denied entry to a session.

Djuric called on the international community to react and "ensure the protection of democratic processes and minority rights."

LIBREVILLE - Serbian Culture Minister Nikola Selakovic, who is on a three-day official visit to Gabon, met with the country's PM Raymond Ndong Sima in Libreville on Wednesday.

Selakovic, who also co-chairs a Serbia-Gabon commission on cooperation, presented Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic's special invitation to Gabon to the specialised EXPO 2027.

BRUSSELS - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said in Brussels on Tuesday evening he would not change Belgrade's policy of not introducing sanctions against Russia.

BRUSSELS - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday in Brussels he had met with the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak and that he had reiterated that Belgrade stood ready to cooperate to help identify those behind the recent incident in Kosovo-Metohija's Varage village, which he noted had "served for the purpose of a hybrid attack on our country."

ZUBIN POTOK - Srpska lista deputy leader Dragisa Milovic said on Monday Serbs in the north of Kosovo-Metohija were subjected to torture by Pristina's so-called special police in the wake of a blast that had damaged the Ibar-Lepenac canal in the Varage village.

Srpska lista is a political organisation of Kosovo-Metohija Serbs.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Marko Djuric spoke with the UK's Minister of State for Europe, North America and Overseas Territories Stephen Doughty on Monday to inform him of the situation in the Autonomous Province of Kosovo-Metohija and Serbia's positions on the recent sabotage on the Ibar-Lepenac canal in the Zubin Potok municipality in the north of the province.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Public and Cultural Diplomacy Arnaud Gouillon said on Monday 31 attacks on Serbian cultural assets had been registered in Kosovo-Metohija since last year and that there had been as many as 113 attacks on the Serb population in the province since the beginning of this year.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Marko Djuric said on Monday Serbia would fight to open Cluster 3 in its EU accession talks and noted that it was very important to determine the political motives behind a recent attack on the Ibar-Lepenac canal in Kosovo-Metohija.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Marko Djuric says Pristina's PM Albin Kurti has "once again demonstrated a pattern of reckless accusations devoid of any substance or evidence - further undermining fragile relations in the region."

In a post on X, Djuric was reacting to Kurti's press conference in the wake of a blast that damaged the Ibar-Lepenac canal in Kosovo-Metohija on Friday.