Kosovo Serbs

SOFIA - The Serbian parliamentary delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly said the organisation's decision on Monday to grant associate membership status to the so-called Kosovo assembly was a dangerous precedent that would further worsen the living conditions for Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija.

BELGRADE - Prior to Friday's meeting with Patriarch Porfirije of the Serbian Orthodox Church and Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija were targeted by brutal persecution that was not easy to stop, but noted that Serbia would never accept an independent "Kosovo".

BELGRADE - The Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija said on Friday the Albin Kurti-led authorities in Pristina had banned its Director Petar Petkovic from entering Kosovo-Metohija to spend the Orthodox Easter holidays with Serbs in the province.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic said on Wednesday Serbia's charge d'affaires in Ljubljana had rejected allegations by the Slovenian foreign ministry about a statement by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic over which the diplomat had been summoned by the ministry.

NEW YORK - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said in the UN Security Council on Monday the Serbs had met all the difficult obligations from the Brussels Agreement with Pristina but that, after 11 years, the establishment of a Community of Serb Municipalities was "not even on the horizon."

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said at the weekend Serbia-US bilateral cooperation was improving both economically and politically but that the two countries had differing views on the Kosovo-Metohija issue and a draft Srebrenica resolution in the UN General Assembly.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said Monday's UN Security Council session on the work of UNMIK, the UN mission in Kosovo-Metohija, was another opportunity for Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to highlight all fundamental principles advocated by Serbia and point out all problems faced by Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija.

Residents of four Serb-majority municipalities on Sunday overwhelmingly boycotted a vote on removing their ethnic Albanian mayors from office following last year's mayoral elections.

BELGRADE - Commenting on the latest beating of a Kosovo-Metohija Serb by Pristina's police, the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Monday beatings and arrests of Serbs were evidently "values" that were a "recommendation" for the so-called Kosovo's Council of Europe (CoE) admission.

BELGRADE, April 11 (Tanjug) - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic received French special Western Balkans envoy Rene Troccaz on Thursday.