Guarantees to the Serbian Orthodox Church to have full right to dispose of all its movable and immovable property and to maintain the legal protection regime for 44 facilities that represent special zones of Serbian cultural and religious heritage, and recognition of the position of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) in Kosovo  - those are the main demands of Belgrade in a plan sent by the Serbian side to European mediators in dialogue with Pristina, TV Most reported, quoting daily Vecernje Novosti.

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric spoke with the Head of the OSCE mission in Kosovo about the political and security situation in Kosovo, reads the statement of the Office for KiM, Radio Television of Serbia is quoting.

Djuric pointed out that the recent intrusion of Albanian special forces in the north of Kosovo was a threat to stability and that it is necessary that international organizations in the field take steps to prevent such provocations happening again, reports RTS.

Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director, Marko Djuric urged those “who sustained damages over the recent period” to address the municipalities or the Office for Kosovo and Metohija for compensation, KoSSev portal reported.

“We would do our utmost to compensate these people,” Djuric added. He also announced talks are underway with insurance companies and banks in order to find a solution so farmers and people dealing with agriculture in Kosovo and Metohija can have insurances against thefts under the state expenses.

Director of the Office for KiM Marko Djuric, at the meeting with the German Ambassador in Serbia, Thomas Schieb, said that Serbia is determined to protect interests and improve the living conditions of the Serbian people in Kosovo, and that it is concerned about the renewed wave of pressure and attacks on Kosovo Serbs and their property in the past period.

The Serbian government will hold a thematic session with representatives of the Serbs in Kosovo in October, where an investment plan for all ten municipalities with a Serb majority will be adopted, announced today the director of the Government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric.

Djuric told TV Prva that the construction of new kindergartens and roads was already initiated, and that this is actually a struggle for survival of the people in Kosovo.

Director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric held an unscheduled press conference in Belgrade this Thursday.

Djuric reacted to the statements being made by Kosovo officials, above all Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj.

Joint session of the Serbian Government and Serb representatives from Kosovo should be held in a month’a time and investment plan for Serb-majority municipalities would be presented, Office for Kosovo and Metohija announced, BETA news agency reported.

In the statement of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, the Deputy Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Dusan Kozarev, said at the OSCE Human Dimension Conference in Warsaw that Serbs in Kosovo have been exposed to ethnically-motivated attacks in the past year about 50 times. Kozarev estimates that this is largely due to the failure Pristina to fulfil its obligations in terms of establishing the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO), reports Radio Television of Serbia (RTS).

The Serbian government Office for Kosovo said on Wednesday that its chief Marko Djuric had been banned from entering Kosovo but the local police denied that claim.

The Beta news agency was told by the Office that Pristina had banned Djuric from entering Kosovo but Ranking police official Besim Hoti denied that claim saying that Djuric had permission for the visit and decided not to enter Kosovo.

“He was not banned from entering, he had permission to enter Kosovo, but he had his own reasons to turn back,” Hoti said.

France, like Germany, is against the "delimitation" between Belgrade and Pristina, reports today Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti.

Vecernje Novosti sources point out that the opposition was expressed to any change in borders or administrative lines in the region during a conference of ambassadors held last week, which was attended by French President Emmanuel Macron. Paris's position is even tougher than Berlin's position, the daily reports.