Independence of Kosovo

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Marko Djuric said on Tuesday the announcement that the EU Council of Ministers had approved a letter inviting Serbia to submit its negotiation positions for Chapters 16 and 19 under Cluster 3 of its EU accession talks was good news and that Serbia was prepared for further progress on the European path.

PRISTINA - Prosecutors in Pristina have indicted a Serb man identified with the initials D D for allegedly committing the criminal offences of attacking an officer on duty and "involvement in a crowd that committed acts of crime and hooliganism" during a protest outside the municipal building in Zvecan, northern Kosovo-Metohija, on May 29, 2023.

BRUSSELS - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak said on Monday he had briefed EU member states over the past two weeks on the state of play in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, and announced that he would have a "packed schedule of meetings and official missions" in the coming weeks.

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.

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 - In a public address about the incident in Zubin Potok and the current situation in Kosovo-Metohija, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said a major, fierce hybrid attack against Serbia had been attempted on Saturday.

BELGRADE - Slovak PM Robert Fico said on Thursday in Belgrade Slovakia and Serbia were able to rely on each other and that his country respected the territorial integrity of Serbia and would never let Serbia down on the Kosovo-Metohija issue.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with French special Western Balkans envoy Rene Troccaz in Belgrade on Tuesday to discuss the situation in Europe and the region, the situation in the Autonomous Province of Kosovo-Metohija and Serbia's EU path.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Thursday Pristina's PM Albin Kurti had begun closing down Serb schools in Kosovo-Metohija with the aim of expelling the Serbs from the province, and added that he had informed international representatives of the arrest of the principal of a primary school in Gojbulja.