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ROME - Serbian FM Marko Djuric, who is on an official visit to Rome, voiced concern on Wednesday over continued unilateral and provocative moves by Pristina and said the presence and engagement of Italian KFOR troops in Kosovo-Metohija were extremely important, especially when it comes to protection of the Visoki Decani monastery.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Monday a synchronised anti-Serbian campaign and concerted attacks on Serbian President Alaksandar Vucic, Serbia and Kosovo-Metohija Serbs were underway by Zagreb and Pristina with the aim of destabilising the situation and causing fresh tensions in the Western Balkan region.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday he dreamed of a successful and economically advanced Serbia that would be by far the most developed country in its part of Europe, but noted that he was very proud of the national defence industry and that the Serbian Armed Forces would keep receiving arms in order to be a deterrent.

BELGRADE - The chairman of the Serbian parliamentary committee on defence and interior affairs Milovan Drecun said on Thursday no mechanism of the EU or some European bureaucrats would be able to make Belgrade accept to recognise the false state of "Kosovo."

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Wednesday Pristina was killing the dialogue with Belgrade and that Pristina's chief negotiator Besnik Bislimi had refused to discuss all topics during Tuesday's round of dialogue in Brussels.

BRUSSELS - Belgrade's delegation headed by the Director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic met with the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak and his team in Brussels on Tuesday afternoon.

Previously, Lajcak also met with a Pristina delegation led by Pristina's chief negotiator Besnik Bislimi.

BRUSSELS - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak has announced he would convene the chief negotiators of the two parties in Brussels on Tuesday "to work out concrete steps" to unblock the implementation of an agreement on the path to normalisation of relations.

BRUSSELS - A new round of technical dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina at chief negotiators level will be held in Brussels on Tuesday - EU spokesman Peter Stano said on Monday the priority and the agenda was determined by the "top urgency of starting the implementation of the agreement on the path to normalisation" between the two parties.

BRUSSELS - A new round of technical dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina at chief negotiators level will be held in Brussels on Tuesday - EU spokesman Peter Stano said on Monday the priority and the agenda was determined by the "top urgency of starting the implementation of the agreement on the path to normalisation" between the two parties.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Monday dialogue was the only way of normalising Belgrade-Pristina relations, delivering on signed agreements and solving numerous problems on the ground but that Pristina's PM Albin Kurti was not interested in dialogue.