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BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said on Thursday Pristina did not, could not and would never have a diplomatic representative office in Belgrade, and added that it was more likely to open an embassy on the moon than in Belgrade.

The meeting began at 10:00 a.m., in the building of the General Secretariat of the President of the Republic, the Office for Media Relations of the President announced.

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BELGRADE - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in Belgrade on Tuesday implementation of the Ohrid Agreement, reached in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, was a precondition on the EU path.

She will meet with Serbian President Aleksandar Vui and Prime Minister Ana Brnabi.
Vui and Von der Leyen will first have a face-to-face meeting at the Palace of Serbia, followed by a meeting with members of the two delegations.

BRUSSELS - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak has announced he would invite the chief negotiators in the dialogue to Brussels soon for discussions about the next steps and said the focus should now be on advancing an agreement on the path to normalisation without preconditions or delays.

BRUSSELS - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will be in Belgrade on Tuesday as part of a four-day visit to the Western Balkans, where she will present the details of an EU growth plan for the region, the EC announced on Friday.

She will arrive in Belgrade on Tuesday afternoon and meet with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and PM Ana Brnabic.

PRISTINA - The Pristina authorities have extended the custody of Vladimir Tolic - a Kosovo-Metohija Serb arrested in the wake of the September 24 clashes in Banjska - by two months, his lawyer said on Tuesday.

In a statement to Tanjug, Milos Delevic said Blagoje Spasojevic and Dusan Maksimovic, who have also been arrested after the incident, had also had their custody extended.

LESKOVAC - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday he expected to go to Brussels in two or three days for another round of discussions with Pristina's PM Albin Kurti but that he could not elaborate on this.

Vucic was responding to questions from reporters during a visit to the Leskovac general hospital.

NEW YORK - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said in the UN Security Council on Monday evening the interim authorities in Pristina were carrying out a campaign of systematic violence and denial of the fundamental rights of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija.

BRUSSELS - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak said that, during last weekend's visits to Belgrade and Pristina, a "big five" of Western envoys had expressed the expectation the parties would meet the obligations from the dialogue, and noted that any delays or conditions would be unacceptable.