Kosovo–Serbia relations

BELGRADE - Belgrade welcomes the Srpska lista decision to run in the February 9 elections in Kosovo-Metohija to win a landslide victory by taking all ten seats guaranteed to Serbs in Pristina's assembly to continue to fight for the survival of Serbs in the province by democratic means and through institutions, says the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic.

FREIBERG - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday his discussions with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had addressed not only mining projects but also Kosovo-Metohija and other important issues, as well as the geopolitical situation.

BRUSSELS - A new meeting of the chief negotiators of Belgrade and Pristina will be held in Brussels on December 17 to discuss a series of issues, including implementation of an agreement on the path to normalisation of relations, European Commission Spokesperson Anitta Hipper announced on Tuesday.

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.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Srpska lista, a political organisation of Kosovo-Metohija Serbs, announced on Friday it would run in the February 9 elections in the province, noting that it was the only party representing the interests of Serbs living there.

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."

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday important meetings in Brussels, Zurich and Berne were ahead of him over the next three days.

Speaking to reporters in Belgrade, Vucic said that, among other officials, he would meet with EU foreign policy and security chief Kaja Kallas and European Council President Antonio Costa in Brussels on Tuesday.

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.