Deputy Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Dusan Kozarev was not allowed on Thursday to enter Kosovo at Merdare crossing.

The Office for KiM said in the press release that ''this is another illegal and anti-democratic ban that was applied to representatives of our Office in one day”.

According to the statement, Kozarev was supposed to go to Prizren, where he was supposed to open an event dedicated to poetry “Lazar Vuckovic”, organized by Jedinstvo newspaper and its publisher.

The Deputy Director at the Office for KiM Dusan Kozarev was forced to leave Kosovo on Friday – the Kosovo Office announced, reported portal KoSSev.

Kozarev was stopped on the road between Ranilug and Novo Brdo and then escorted to Konculj on the grounds that ''the representatives of the state bodies of Serbia are not welcome in the Kosovo elections''.

Member of opposition Alliance for Serbia (SzS) Dveri Movement MPs Bosko Obradovic and Marija Janusevic raised the banners saying, “No Division, No Surrender”, “You Betrayed Kosovo” and “Kosovo is Serbia” at the beginning of a meeting of the Serbian National Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, BETA news agency reported. The banners also included “One in Five Million” slogan used by the civic protests across Serbia.

Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Deputy Director, Dusan Kozarev visited Gracanica municipality and discussed with its mayor Srdjan Popovic about implementation of the projects in this area to be financed by the Serbian Government, RTS reports.

According to Kozarev, Gracanica municipality has reasons to be optimistic since capital investments would follow and potential of this place would start to develop. He added, citizens of central Kosovo, can expect stronger presence of the Serbian state there.

Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Deputy Director Dusan Kozarev met with the Head of OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Ambassador Jan Braathu yesterday, and informed him about everyday problems Serbs in Kosovo are facing, in particular about the difficulties caused by the trade blockade on goods from central Serbia, Danas daily reports.

This morning the Basketball club 'Partizan' from Belgrade was banned from entering Kosovo. Partizan was supposed to play a friendly game with the Basketball club Trepca from Mitrovica North, RTS learns.

The club was stopped at Jarinje crossing. The club 'Partisan' wanted to support the Serbs’ protest over Pristina's measure by which taxes on products from central Serbia were raised to 100 percent.

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).

It is not true that Belgrade is not implementing agreements - "while the only truth is that Pristina is running away from the dialogue."

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Dusan Kozarev said this on Monday, and added:

"Belgrade has fulfilled all the obligations from the First Brussels Agreement, while Pristina and its chief negotiator Avni Arifi use mindless excuses in their persistent efforts to find justification for unilaterally avoiding the continuation of the dialogue," Kozarev said.

Pristina's chief negotiator Avni Arifi's statement that his side never interrupted the dialogue with Belgrade and that Belgrade failed to fulfil the obligations assumed by the Brussels agreement cannot be called anything else than the untruth, says deputy director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Dusan Kozarev in a statement delivered to media.

“Within the framework of the internal dialogue on Kosovo, initiated by the President of Serbia, five more round tables will be held” Deputy Head of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Dusan Kozarev told Beta news agency today.

Kozarev added that the 26^th roundtable organized by the Cultural Education Council took place yesterday.