Community of Serb Municipalities

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and other Western Balkan regional issues Miroslav Lajcak in Belgrade on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - The director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Tuesday an invitation by the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak to resume the dialogue in Brussels in two days had been accepted by Belgrade and that the text of a statute of a Community of Serb Municipalities would be on the agenda.

As he said, it is the most concrete framework and guarantor for the preservation of collective and individual rights, as well as negotiated executive powers for Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija in the most important social, economic, political, cultural, developmental, economic and security issues, the statement of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija stated.

BRUSSELS - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday in Brussels implementation of a draft statute of a Community of Serb Municipalities was in the interest of Pristina and would be a "big step forward", while EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi noted that Pristina must redouble its efforts in making the dialogue with Belgrade successful.

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.

BRUSSELS - Belgrade and Pristina must continue constant efforts to de-escalate the situation, especially when it comes to the soonest possible holding of fresh elections in the north of Kosovo-Metohija with active Serb participation, say draft conclusions to be adopted at a Brussels EU summit to be held on Thursday and Friday.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic warned at a meeting with Chinese Ambassador to Belgrade Li Ming on Friday the situation in Kosovo-Metohija was more than serious and urged a soonest possible de-escalation through a withdrawal of the so-called Kosovo Police from the north of the province and establishment of Kfor protection for local Serbs.

BRUSSELS - The EU on Tuesday called on Belgrade and Pristina to meet their commitments from an agreement on normalisation of relations and noted that work to establish a Community of Serb Municipalities needs to start "without any further delay or pre-condition."

BRUSSELS - Speaking to reporters after Thursday's round of the Brussels dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, EU foreign policy and security chief Josep Borrell said it had not been possible to "bridge the differences" and that Pristina's PM Albin Kurti had not been ready to start a process towards establishing a Community of Serb Municipalities but insisted on a de facto recognition of the s

BRUSSELS - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday that, under the Brussels Agreement, Leposavic, as well as Kosovska Mitrovica and Zvecan, was a part of a Community of Serb Municipalities in Kosovo-Metohija and that the establishment of an ethnic Albanian association of municipalities was a "circus show."