Kosovo Serbs

Police patrol "did not react" as Serb teen was attacked

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Three members of the Kosovo police who were on duty as a 17-year-old Serb was stabbed in an incident in Kosovska Mitrovica have been suspended.

This announcement was made on Friday, a day after the incident, by Deputy Regional Commander of the Kosovo Police Besim Hoti.

FM says he was "misquoted" about EU

BELGRADE -- Ivica Dacic says it is "nothing new" that Serbia faces new and more difficult conditions every time it meets "a major requirement in moving closer to the EU."

Dacic: "Even if we recognized Kosovo, EU wouldn't want us"

Serbian Foreign Minister and First Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Dacic has said that Serbia, "even if it recognized Kosovo," would not be able to join the EU.

The reason for this, he told the Russian website Sputnik in an interview, is that "there will always be some new conditions."

"Respect of coalition agreement only condition"

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Respect of the coalition agreement remains the only condition for return to Pristina institutions, Serb representatives have said.

They on Friday held a meeting with Director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric.

BELGRADE - Kosovska Mitrovica Mayor Goran Rakic requested the Kosovo Trust Agency (KTA) Thursday to immediately stop the announced privatization of some thirty facilities owned by the company LUX on the Serb-majority north of Kosovo-Metohija (KiM).

"Community of municipalities is Brussels obligation"

BELGRADE -- In the political sense, the establishment of a community of Serb municipalities in Kosovo is an obligation under the Brussels agreement, says Marko Djuric.

BELGRADE - Politically, establishment of the community of Serb municipalities in Kosovo-Metohija is an obligation under the Brussels Agreement and it is advocated by Belgrade and the representatives of the Srpska list in the province, the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija, Marko Djuric, said Wednesday.

PRISTINA - The community of Serb municipalities is a form of association and cannot be a non-governmental organization, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said in Pristina Wednesday.

A regional ministerial conference opened in Kosovo on Wednesday, bringing together the Foreign and Infrastructure ministers of Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.

BELGRADE - Serbs are the greatest pessimists in the region when it comes to the situation in the country and expectations of the future, show the preliminary results of a research by the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) published on Monday.