Pristina

BELGRADE - The Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija said on Friday Pristina's special police forces had arrested a Serb from Leposavic at the Jarinje administrative crossing for no reason and without any grounds.

BRUSSELS - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak said on Wednesday evening he had had a useful meeting with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and that they had agreed that steps needed to be taken urgently to de-escalate the situation in the north of Kosovo-Metohija.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic met with Hungarian Ambassador to Belgrade Jozsef Zoltan Magyar on Friday to inform him of the difficult political and security situation in Kosovo-Metohija, especially in the north of the province, which he said was threatening to jeopardise peace and stability across the region.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic spoke by phone with French President Emmanuel Macron at the weekend to present to him the consequences of dangerous developments in Kosovo-Metohija.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija Milovan Drecun said on Friday President Aleksandar Vucic's latest public address demonstrated that the situation in Kosovo-Metohija was entering a dramatic stage of developments and that there was no indication Pristina would give up on unilateral moves.

This was stated by the president of the Parliamentary Committee for Kosovo, Milovan Drecun, for RTS, adding that there is no indication that Pristina will give up unilateral moves.

However, he added that he does not agree with the policy Kurti has been leading lately, which caused the so-called Kosovo to be isolated.
Rama said that he has a very good personal relationship with Kurti, but that he does not agree with his policy that he has been leading lately, that is, with the "self-isolation" imposed by the so-called Kosovo.

In its response to Koha, EULEX stated that the decision of the government in Pristina "is not agreed with EULEX".
Yesterday, the European Union assessed that this step, apart from not being coordinated with Brussels, does not contribute to the de-escalation of the situation in the north of Kosovo.

"The special department of the Basic Court in Pristina accepted the request of the Special Prosecutor's Office of Kosovo, for the extension of the measure of custody of the defendants S.J. and I.S, so that the measure of detention was extended for each of them by one month", said the spokeswoman of the court, Mirlinda Gashi, according to Reporters.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija Milovan Drecun said on Monday Pristina's PM Albin Kurti was merely implementing Western goals, including the goal of getting Serbia to recognise the so-called Kosovo as a state.