Serbia has a need to constantly be present on the American continent to be able to protect its national and state interest in the best way, Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said during his visit to Bogotá, RTS reported on Saturday.

Addressing the 49^th session of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) in the Colombian capital Dacic said that Serbia has become an observer state in many American associations, with the OAS as the largest ones.

Serbian Internal Affairs Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said last night Pristina’s claims that Interpol General Assembly would consider Kosovo request to join this organization are inaccurate, Tanjug news agency reported.

He added claims by the Pristina officials represent pressure on members of the Executive Committee and they happen at the moment while the session is still ongoing.

State Secretary in the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs Biljana Popovic-Ivkovic met in Baku with Azerbaijan Deputy Minister of Interior Oruj Zalov and presented to him Serbia’s arguments against reconsideration of Kosovo request to join Interpol, Tanjug news agency reported.

Zalov noted that Azerbaijan supports territorial integrity of Serbia and would continue to offer support to Serbia in international organizations.

A senior official with the Serbian Internal Affairs Ministry (MUP) said on Tuesday that the Kosovo authorities have applied for membership in Interpol for a fourth time.
MUP State Secretary Biljana Popovic Ivkovic said that the re-submitted application is part of continued political pressure on the international police organization, a ministry press release said.

Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic spoke in Belgrade with Alexander Prokopchuk, vice-president of Interpol and head of the Russian National Central Bureau - Moscow, the Serbian MIA announced.

Stefanovic met Prokopchuk to discuss reasons of Serbia's opposing the Kosovo's accession to Interpol, bearing in mind that representatives of Pristina institutions have again applied for entry to the international police organization.

President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic says he is not angry, but disappointed, when speaking about the upcoming meeting with Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and the mild reaction of the EU towards the ROSU incursion to Kosovo North, reports portal B92, quoting Belgrade based TV Prva.

Valdrin Lluka, Kosovo’s Minister of Economic Development, told N1 on Thursday he expected a final solution in Belgrade - Pristina dialogue on normalisation of relations to be reached this year and accused Serbia of not implementing deals agreed in Brussels.

Speaking at the sidelines of the “Challenges and perspectives of normalisation between Belgrade and Pristina” conference in Belgrade, Lluka said that Serbia’s refusal to implement the energy deal from 2013 caused 25 million Euros loss per year for Kosovo.

The decision of Pristina institutions to send a new membership request to Interpol indicates that the latest voting there did not sober them up, Serbian Minister of Internal Affairs Nebojsa Stevanovic told Tanjug news agency.

He added, Pristina fails to realize that persistence in no way can be an argument, but only the international law and rules and procedures of this professional police organization.

Serbia’s Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic asked Interpol chiefs and the members to the organization's Executive Committee not to look at Kosovo’s new membership application and to vote against if it was put on the next years' General Assembly meeting, N1 reported.

Membership of Kosovo in Interpol would jeopardize that professional police organization, Serbian Internal Affairs Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said, BETA news agency reported.

Stefanovic told the Czech Ambassador Tomas Kuchta that the latest vote at the Interpol General Assembly in Dubai showed that many countries do not support Kosovo request for membership nor do they want the police organization to become political.