Office for Kosovo and Metohija

BELGRADE - The director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic met on Tuesday with the head of the Department for Continental Europe of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Brice Roquefeuil to inform him of threats to Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija, especially following Pristina's decision to ban the Serbian dinar.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic on Tuesday dismissed as "pointless and cynical" Pristina PM Albin Kurti's constant attempts to point to Belgrade as an excuse for militarisation of Kosovo-Metohija and systematic threats to the rights and the security of Serbs in the province.

BELGRADE - At a meeting with German Ambassador to Belgrade Anke Konrad, the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic warned that an expulsion of Serbs from Kosovo-Metohija and abolition of Serbian institutions in the province were the real reasons behind Pristina's ban on the Serbian dinar, which took effect on February 1.

BELGRADE - Every time we visit Kosovo-Metohija, we support the Serbs living there to stay there, the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said at the opening of the Experience Kosovo-Metohija booth at the International Tourism Fair in Belgrade on Friday.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Wednesday that, on orders from Pristina's PM Albin Kurti, the so-called Kosovo Police had earlier in the day denied entry to the province to another shipment of dinars for payment of salaries, pensions and social benefits to Serbs and other non-Albanians relying on incomes coming from the Serbian sta

BELGRADE - We will continue to fight for our people in Kosovo-Metohija and we will never leave them in the lurch, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday, noting that, under the UN Charter and the Serbian Constitution, Kosovo-Metohija was - and always would be - a part of Serbia.

BELGRADE - The director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said a meeting between Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and representatives of the Quint states on Wednesday evening had been the most difficult one he had ever attended and that it had been clear to everyone in the room Pristina's PM Albin Kurti was the main culprit for the current situation in Kosovo

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Tuesday past statements by the Quint states about various illegal bans imposed by Pristina's PM Albin Kurti had been void of substance and relevance but that the latest one - issued after Pristina announced it would stop payment transactions with central Serbia and ban the Serbian dinar from February

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Monday that, at a meeting with the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic had noted the difficult position of Kosovo-Metohija Serbs and that Pristina needed to stop making escalatory moves that disrupted the lives of Serbs.

BELGRADE - The director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic met with Italian Ambassador to Belgrade Luca Gori on Friday, noting that it was clear Pristina's decision to abolish the Serbian dinar as the legal tender in Kosovo-Metohija was aimed at ethnic cleansing of Serbs.