Belgrade expects the issues of Kosovo and other property on 9 February before the negotiators in Brussels.

Director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric visited the soup kitchen in the village of Prekovce, municipality of Novo Brdo in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), to mark the holiday of Orthodox Christmas on Wednesday. In the soup kitchen that distributes nearly 1 million meals annually, Djuric reminded Serbian citizens that solidarity with Serbs in the southern Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohija is still necessary. He noted that the Serbian government donated RSD 14 million last year for soup kitchens, adding that financial support would be provided this year as well

Marko Djuric has said that Serbia "will continue to fight against the unilaterally proclaimed independence of Kosovo by all means at the state's disposal."   This "fight," however, "does not prevent the administration in Belgrade or the Serbs in Kosovo to talk with the Kosovo Albanians and implement the agreements that have been reached," the director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija said in an interview with the TV Most broadcaster from Zvecan in northern Kosovo. The Serbs in Kosovo and the government of Serbia, as he said, are "champions of the struggle for nor

In next year we will struggle to preserve stability, but also to strengthen the foundations of our existence in Kosovo and Metohija," said Marko Djuric, Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija of the Serbian Government.  "We will try to eradicate corruption, crime, bring back confidence in the institutions. We will try to make visible steps in returns. We will also try to help our representatives in provincial institutions to lead the policy in the best possible way," said Djuric, adding that Serbia will continue to strongly support Kosovo.

Marko Djuric says the Brussels agreement should be respected and inflammatory rhetoric avoided when speaking about the community of Serb municipalities. The head of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija also called for honoring of the coalition agreement on which the current Kosovo government is based. He was reacting to a statement by the Kosovo minister in charge of the dialogue with Belgrade, Edita Tahiri, concerning the future community of Serb municipalities. "Belgrade encourages pluralism of opinion among the province's officials that entails that some of the ministers

The Association of Serb Municipalities (ZSO) is to be established in three to five months, said Marko Djuric, director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija. "The new provincial government is based on the coalition agreement, whose first article reads that the deadline for the ZSO formation is three to five months. ZSO and its formation is a condition of the government's existence.

Community of Serbian municipalities (ZSO) will be formed in the next three to five months, said the Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric. Djuric said that the establishment of the ZSO is the focal point of political struggle in Kosovo: "We want that ZSO has the capacity and that in political and any other terms ZSO will provide the Serbs in K&M the opportunity to decide and manage their own matters.

Director of the Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric said today that the government would continue to support the team for the defense of Oliver Ivanovic. "All the public knows in what conditions is Ivanovic today and all those, who care about justice, fairness and the rule of law, are expected to allow bail for Ivanovic and to accept guarantees that are provided and not to allow instrumentalization of the case in further political ends," Djuric said. Djuric said that he believes that all those who follow the situation in Kosovo, are supporting Ivanovic and "his fight for