North Kosovo

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said at a government session on Tuesday he expected Albin Kurti's regime in Pristina to blame the Serbs for a recent attack on the Ibar-Lepenac canal in Kosovo-Metohija to stop Srpska lista from running in the upcoming elections in the province.

Srpska lista is a political party of Kosovo-Metohija Serbs.

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.

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.

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.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Serbian Democracy leader Aleksandar Arsenijevic was arrested by Pristina's police in northern Kosovska Mitrovica on Tuesday, Tanjug's correspondent reported.

The so-called Kosovo Police has still not confirmed the reasons for the arrest.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Employees of Serbian institutions in Kosovska Mitrovica were again denied access to their workplaces by the so-called Kosovo Police, which is still blocking municipal buildings in the north of Kosovo-Metohija after raiding and closing them on Friday.

Kosovo police prevented Kosovo Serbs from accessing their workplaces in front of the Mitrovica municipality building, which was forcefully closed on Friday, according to Tanjug. Kosovo Serbs gathered outside the building, seeking entry to their offices, but were blocked by police, who had arrived with jeeps.