Kosovo Albanians

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.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Wednesday laws to be passed by Serbia to support Serbs in the Autonomous Province of Kosovo-Metohija were unrelated to Belgrade's commitments from the dialogue with Pristina and were a direct consequence of, and a reaction to, oppression against the Serbs by the Pristina regime and a lack of visible

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Wednesday laws to be passed by Serbia to support Serbs in the Autonomous Province of Kosovo-Metohija were unrelated to Belgrade's commitments from the dialogue with Pristina and were a direct consequence of, and a reaction to, oppression against the Serbs by the Pristina regime and a lack of visible

BRUSSELS - A trilateral meeting of Belgrade's chief negotiator Petar Petkovic, the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak and Pristina's chief negotiator Besnik Bislimi concluded shortly before 5 pm in Brussels.

Earlier, Lajcak held separate meetings with Petkovic and Bislimi as part of a new round of the dialogue at chief negotiators level.

Türkiye handed over the command of NATO's Kosovo Peacekeeping Force (KFOR) on Oct. 11 to Italy, a year after it assumed the role for the first time.

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- 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.

BRUSSELS - Even though people in Brussels know which side is blocking progress in the EU-facilitated Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, they "would never say that publicly," Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has told Brussels-based internet portal Politico.eu.

"The EU and the Americans agree with us," Vucic said in an interview.

BELGRADE - Commenting on the closure of Post of Serbia branch offices in Kosovo-Metohija, Serbian Minister of Labour, Employment and Veteran and Social Affairs Nemanja Starovic said on Wednesday Pristina PM Albin Kurti's moves reflected a pattern of unilateral measures that drew only verbal condemnations by the US and the EU but no concrete measures.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday evening Pristina PM Albin Kurti's behaviour was an attempt of starting a conflict of war and that Kurti was doing that in an organised manner with support from some Western powers, while Belgrade wanted to preserve peace.