The Head of the Parliamentary Committee for Kosovo and Metohija Milovan Drecun said that Serbia cannot block the transformation of Kosovo’s Security Forces (KSF) into an army but can ask Washington and NATO to guarantee the force would not cross into the north, N1 reported last night.

Drecun added that the Belgrade – Pristina dialogue on normalisation of relations would continue and that Pristina made some moves to secure a better position in the final stage of negotiations in Brussels.

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.

The Orthodox church of St Nicholas in a village Grncare, in the municipality of Vitina, has been robbed and vandalized, announced the Serbian List on Monday.

The List said that the interior of the church had been desecrated and called for the perpetrators to be found quickly “in order to send a clear message that this type of behaviour and endangering of the peace is unacceptable,” reported Serbian media.

The NATO-led KFOR declared as legal the Kosovo police operation in the northern part of the divided Mitrovica town with the majority of Serbs, during which four men were arrested in connection to the investigation into a Serb politician murder, a Force's statement said on Friday

On November 14, the UN Security Council session will be held in New York, where UN Secretary-General Antony Guterres's report on the work of UNMIK will be discussed, reported Serbian media.

The session on the situation in Kosovo, the first after six months, was scheduled at the initiative of China, which took over the Security Council on November 1.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is planning to visit Serbia in January, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said on Friday during a visit to Belgrade, Russian news agency TASS reports.

"We consider today's talks an important step in preparing the planned visit of Putin to Serbia for January next year," Borisov said at a meeting with Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic.

The European Union has said Pristina’s decision to raise import taxes on goods from Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina in response to what it feels is Serbia’s destructive behaviour, was unexpected and the bloc has demanded an immediate explanation of the move, media reported on Wednesday.

The 10 percent higher import taxes were imposed on milk and milk products, water, biscuits, construction materials and fruit juices.

The question of Kosovo is a crucial issue because it is necessary to know how to live with a neighbour to be able to exist within the European Union, Knut Fleckenstein, a member of the European Parliament (EP) told N1 morning show on Tuesday.

He has insisted that the EU does not want to import rivalries and that is why Belgrade and Pristina have to find a way to solve their problems.

Serbs who have left their homes in Pristina, Kosovo, and are now living in Belgrade and Nis have on Saturday visited the partially cleaned up Pristina Orthodox cemetery but again found some of the gravestones damaged.

The Serbs traveled to Kosovo with two buses and were joined by Serbs internally displaced in villages around Pristina. The groups visited the graveyard marking the Orthodox holiday of St. Demetrios, or Mitrovdan.

Serbia’s citizens are split in understanding what the term separation from Kosovo means, with 41 percent saying they know the meaning and 39 admitting they have no clue, shows the latest opinion poll by the Demostat, investigative publishing centre, the Beta news agency reported on Friday.

The poll was conducted from October 7 to 18 and covered 1,200 people.