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BELGRADE - The Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija said on Thursday Pristina had denied entry to the province to its Deputy Director Svetlana Miladinov, who was to visit the Orthodox Serb population on St Nicholas Day (December 19).

WASHINGTON - Serbian FM Marko Djuric says the first Trump administration injected "fresh ideas" into the Belgrade-Pristina relationship and that the second administration represents a new opportunity to revitalise the process of mending it.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Milos Vucevic said on Monday the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak was due to visit Belgrade and that a Brussels meeting at which more specific facts about Pristina's actions would be heard was to follow very soon afterwards.

PRISTINA - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak said in Pristina on Friday an agreement had been reached on the next Brussels meeting of the chief negotiators of Belgrade and Pristina, but did not specify a date.

STRASBOURG - The Council of Europe (CoE) Committee of Ministers did not debate the so-called Kosovo's CoE membership bid on Friday after it was not included in the final agenda adopted before the committee met in Strasbourg, Tanjug learns.

PRISTINA - A Pristina court has extended the custody for three Serbs arrested following the September 24 Banjska clashes by another two months, the attorney of one of the men confirmed to Tanjug on Thursday.

BELGRADE - A member of the Serbian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) said on Friday the delegation had told EU member states that "rewarding" Pristina for its refusal to establish a Community of Serb Municipalities by admitting it to the CoE would have an effect on regional stability in the Western Balkans and the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, noting that th

BELGRADE - Dejan Jankovic, deputy head of the so-called Kosovo Police, who was on Wednesday detained alongside three other members of Pristina's police force, has been placed in 48-hour custody for necessary checks concerning the security of the Republic of Serbia and establishment of facts, the Serbian Interior Ministry told Tanjug on Thursday.

BRUSSELS - A bilateral meeting of EU representatives with Pristina's delegation is underway in Brussels, to be followed by a Belgrade-EU bilateral meeting.

The meeting with the Pristina delegation began following the conclusion of a trilateral meeting of Belgrade, Pristina and EU representatives after over 3.5 hours of discussions.

Ambassador of France in Pristina, Olivier Guerot, added that France expects from Pristina the formation of the Community of Serbian Municipalities.