North Kosovo

ZVECAN - The members of the four municipal assemblies in northern Kosovo-Metohija on Thursday voiced concern over the announced plans of the Pristina authorities to form a Kosovo army.

"We see this as an act of open threat to security in the region and the safety of Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija", North Mitrovica mayor Goran Rakic said at the assemblies' joint session in Zvecan.

Serb municipalities "could break off cooperation with EULEX"

ZVEČAN -- Councilors from municipal assemblies in northern Kosovo on Thursday voiced concern over the announced plans of the Priština authorities to form a Kosovo army.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government will call for a UN Security Council session over the announcement of formation of the armed forces of Kosovo and deterioration of the security and political situation in Kosovo-Metohija, Aleksandar Vulin, Serbian minister without portfolio in charge of Kosovo-Metohija, said on Thursday.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) condemned in the harshest terms the burning of the flag of the Republic of Serbia in Kosovska Mitrovica ahead of the start of a football match between Pristina and Haiti.

BELGRADE - Director of the Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Aleksandar Vulin said Wednesday that new local authorities in northern Kosovo will be solving citizens’ problems such as infrastructure development,illegal construction and changes in the ethnic structure of the population,and the Serbian government will deal with status issues.

BELGRADE - The leader of the Citizens' Initiative Serbia, Democracy, Justice Oliver Ivanovic, who has been on a hunger strike since the denial of his third request for transfer to a detention unit in Kosovska Mitrovica, says that he does not feel safe in the Pristina prison, and that he is a target of politically motivated proceedings devoid of any sense.

ZVECAN - Aleksandar Vulin, Serbia's minister without portfolio in charge of Kosovo-Metohija, has noted that the operation that Kosovo police carried out in Strpce, southern Kosovo-Metohija, on Tuesday was aimed at intimidating Serbs and forcing them to flee.

PRISTINA - Oliver Ivanovic, one of Serb leaders from northern Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), began a hunger strike in a detention unit in Pristina on Tuesday, said his defense attorney Nebojsa Vlajic.

Ivanovic's only request is that he be transferred to a detention unit in Kosovska Mitrovica, Vlajic noted.

BELGRADE - Leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) Ivica Dacic stated on Sunday that the coalition headed by him will guarantee a safe continuation of the EU path in the early parliamentary elections, as well as reforms in a 'human form' and laws which serve the interests of employees and not tycoons.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Zarko Veselinovic, one of the four Serb detainees in Kosovo-Metohija, has been put under house arrest, attorney Dejan A. Vasic, a member of his defense team, said on Friday.