Unrest in Kosovo

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - A Serb man was arrested in northern Kosovska Mitrovica on Friday morning over the May 2023 protests outside the building of the Zvecan municipality in the north of the province.

The man was identified by the so-called Kosovo Police with the initials M D.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Thursday Pristina's PM Albin Kurti had begun closing down Serb schools in Kosovo-Metohija with the aim of expelling the Serbs from the province, and added that he had informed international representatives of the arrest of the principal of a primary school in Gojbulja.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Marko Djuric will be representing Serbia at Wednesday's UN Security Council session on the UN secretary general's report on the work of UNMIK - the UN mission in Kosovo-Metohija - for the period between March 16 and September 15.

The UNSC session in New York is scheduled for 4 pm CET, the Serbian MFA said in a statement.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - A protest over an arrest of four young Serb men was held outside the police station in northern Kosovska Mitrovica on Wednesday morning.

The protesters, who included the arrestees' family members, blew whistles and chanted "Release our children", holding banners that read "Kurtiland police" and "Is the EU concerned?"

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Employees of Serbian institutions in Kosovska Mitrovica were again denied access to their workplaces by the so-called Kosovo Police, which is still blocking municipal buildings in the north of Kosovo-Metohija after raiding and closing them on Friday.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Serbs in the north of Kosovska Mitrovica staged a protest on Thursday over the arrest of two Serb men by the so-called Kosovo Police earlier in the day.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday evening Pristina's PM Albin Kurti wanted to spark a conflict before the US elections as his time was slowly running out and that he was using provocations to turn NATO against Serbia.

JARINJE - The so-called Kosovo Police apprehended a Serb man at the Jarinje administrative crossing on Wednesday for allegedly showing a counterfeit freight transport document of Pristina's ministry of environment and spatial planning.

The man, who is a Serbian national, was apprehended on orders from the prosecutor's office, the so-called Kosovo Police said in a statement.

SOFIA - The Serbian parliamentary delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly said the organisation's decision on Monday to grant associate membership status to the so-called Kosovo assembly was a dangerous precedent that would further worsen the living conditions for Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija.

SOFIA - The Serbian parliamentary delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly said the organisation's decision on Monday to grant associate membership status to the so-called Kosovo assembly was a dangerous precedent that would further worsen the living conditions for Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija.