BELGRADE - Cooperation between the OSCE and the UN, situation in Ukraine and the OSCE's role in solving that crisis were the topics of a meeting between OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

The meeting, also attended by OSCE Secretary General Lambero Zannier, was held ahead of a briefing Dacic is scheduled to hold before the UN Security Council concerning cooperation between the UN and the OSCE, the Serbian Foreign Ministry has stated.

NEW YORK - Serbia advocates reinforcement of the UN role in the preservation of peace and security and respect of international law, Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Ivica Dacic stated in New York on Monday.

The OSCE Mission in Kosovo on Thursday presented a report on illegal re-occupation of properties under the administration of the Kosovo Property Agency (KPA). The report assesses the response of Kosovo institutions to these cases and gives recommendations on ways to enhance the institutional response when re-occupation occurs. According to this report, in which are included only cases submitted to KPA and not north of Kosovo, 95 percent of re-occupations are made by members of the Albanian community that have reoccupied the properties of Serbs.

BELGRADE -- Ivica Dacic visited the OSCE Mission in Belgrade on Thursday and announced that he will also visit the missions in Skopje and Podgorica in February.

The Serbian foreign minister and OSCE chairperson-in-office added he would travel to the OSCE mission in Pristina in March.

Speaking about the visit to the OSCE mission in Pristina, the Serbian foreign minister said that the visit "will not have a status character," Tanjug said.

We have a president with the same constitutional authority that had Milosevic and Tadic. Nikolic's position in the political relations is weaker because he is not head of the largest party, while Milosevic and Tadic were.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ivica Dacic will go in March in Pristina, where he will participate in the continuation of the ministerial summit of the Western Balkans, whose first meeting was held in Belgrade, at the end of October. 

Serbian authorities require status neutral format of the meeting i.e. holding of the meeting without state insignia, as it was the case at the conference in Belgrade in October. 

BELGRADE - The Association of the Families of the Kidnapped and Murdered in Kosovo and Metohija has sent an open letter to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), asking for assistance in ensuring the release of the kidnapped Serbs in Kosovo.

Foreign Minister of Serbia, Ivica Dacic, stated that Kosovo has no chance to be accepted at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE,) prior to reaching some kind of a political agreement, which will not be reached in Vienna. Speaking at a press conference, Dacic said that Kosovo’s demands to become member of OSCE are not new. “Decisions at the OSCE are reached by consensus. It is well known how difficult it is to reach a consensus,” said Dacic on Thursday while receiving officially Serbia’s presiding of this Organization.