North Kosovo

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with Danish FM Lars Lokke Rasmussen on Thursday and informed him of developments in Kosovo-Metohija, noting that the situation there was the most complicated and the most dangerous to date.

BELGRADE, Sept 28 (Tanjug) - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Thursday the Eulex mission had not been allowed to take part in an investigation following last weekend's clashes in Banjska in the north of Kosovo-Metohija because Pristina wanted to hide that the Serbs killed in the clashes had been brutally murdered.

BANJSKA - After four days, the road in Banjska, a village in the north of Kosovo-Metohija, was reopened to traffic on Wednesday and Pristina's special police allowed entry to the village, a Tanjug reporter on the ground said.

The so-called Kosovo Police said last night it had completed an operation of checking the area.

The so-called Kosovo police have completed a police operation in the village of Banjska, municipality of Zvean, writes Telegrafi, adding that the next steps will be decided tomorrow morning.

BELGRADE - The chairman of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija Milovan Drecun said on Tuesday recent deadly clashes in the north of Kosovo-Metohija were a result of horrible terror wreaked by the regime of Pristina's PM Albin Kurti.

Speaking to the RTS, Drecun said Kurti would not only continue but also escalate the terror under the pretext of investigations.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday he had had an important discussion with representatives of Quint states in one of the most difficult moments for Serbia and that he had requested that Kfor take over care of all security issues in the north of Kosovo-Metohija from the so-called Kosovo Police.

Vui met with the ambassadors of the United States of America, Great Britain, France, Italy and Germany.
The meeting was also attended by the director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petkovi.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic said on Monday Serbia should beware any provocations in the wake of clashes in which three Serbs and one officer of the so-called Kosovo Police were killed in the north of Kosovo-Metohija early on Sunday.

BANJSKA - The Banjska village in the Zvecan municipality in the north of Kosovo-Metohija remains sealed off after Sunday's deadly clashes that followed an attempt by a group of Serbs to block a road in the village.

Three Serbs and one officer of the so-called Kosovo Police were killed in the clashes.

BELGRADE - Commenting on the latest developments in the north of Kosovo-Metohija, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said this Sunday was "one of the most difficult days for our country and our people since 2004 and 2008."