Autonomous provinces

SKOPJE - Serbian PM Milos Vucevic said on Monday in Skopje it was good Pristina had lowered long-running tensions by lifting a ban on products from central Serbia at the Merdare administrative crossing but that regular supplies of food and medicines for Serbs in the Autonomous Province of Kosovo-Metohija were the most important matter.

BELGRADE- Serbian PM Milos Vucevic says there are indications Pristina could lift its ban on goods from central Serbia.

BELGRADE - The Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS) and its branch in Serbia's Autonomous Province of Kosovo-Metohija and the Journalists' Union of Serbia (SINOS) condemned in the strongest terms a death threat to Tanjug journalists emailed to the news agency on Monday evening.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Information and Telecommunications Dejan Ristic said a death threat to Tanjug journalists emailed to the agency on Monday had come from the territory of Albania.

Ristic said the location the email had been sent from had already been identified and that communication had been established with Microsoft.

BELGRADE- The Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija said on Monday the current security situation in the autonomous province of Kosovo-Metohija was highly tense and unstable, especially in terms of the position of Serbs and other non-Albanians.

NEW YORK - Serbian FM Marko Djuric said in New York on Thursday the way Serbia had presented itself at the UN General Assembly session in the past week had perhaps been the most comprehensive in 12 years and that the country's position was improving significantly thanks to the amount of effort it was investing.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Milos Vucevic met with the State Secretary of the Holy See Cardinal Pietro Parolin in Belgrade on Wednesday to discuss key topics for strengthening overall relations between Serbia and the Vatican and inform him of the situation in Kosovo-Metohija.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Milos Vucevic said at the weekend his government had adopted a conclusion ordering all ministries to undertake measures and activities aimed at providing legal and social and economic protection and activities to Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija and at protecting the Serb population in the province and Serbian national interests.

BELGRADE - The Director of the Serbian Office for Public and Cultural Diplomacy Arnaud Gouillon said on Wednesday Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija were deprived of the right to own property.

In a post on X, Gouillon included a graphic display of locations where Serb property in Kosovo-Metohija had been expropriated illegally to build bases for special units of the so-called Kosovo Police.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian parliamentary committee on defence and interior affairs Milovan Drecun said on Thursday an investigation would reveal the objectives of Faton Hajrizi - an ethnic Albanian from Kosovo-Metohija who killed one Serbian border police officer and wounded another last week - and why he had come to central Serbia, and added that German authorities did not seem to be w