The Serbian Ministry of Justice has sent an extradition request for Ramush Haradinja to the French judicial authorities.

Tanjug reported this on Tuesday, citing ministry sources.

Along the extradition request, Serbia sent the accompanying documentation translated into French, based on which the French judicial authorities will decide whether conditions have been met to extradite Haradinaj.

The dialogue with Pristina will definitely be the biggest challenge for Belgrade in 2017, FM Ivica Dacic said Thursday, noting the significance of maintaining the dialogue and implementing all agreements.

This primarily applies to establishing the Community of Serb Municipalities, Dacic told Radio Belgrade 1 in an interview, adding that Serbia would never have signed the Brussels Agreement without the pledge regarding the establishment of the Community.

In case Pristina fails to form the Community of Serb Municipalities in Kosovo-Metohija on its own, the Serbs have the full legitimacy and legality to do so, the chairman of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija, Milovan Drecun, said Tuesday.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has assigned the "geographic area" of Kosovo the +383 dialling code pursuant to the Brussels agreement on telecommunications and a formal letter from Serbia.

"This is a historic achievement in the field of telecommunications that strengthens the international entity of Kosovo," the website of the Kosovo government quoted Minister for Dialogue Edita Tahiri as saying.

In Mitrovica after 17 years, today was opened NIS fuel pump, and Director of the Office for KiM attended the opening ceremony. Đurić went to Kosovo despite the ban, reports Tanjug.

BRUSSELS - With EU facilitation, the Belgrade and Pristina delegations on Wednesday agreed on implementation of the 2015 agreement on the judiciary, which secures adequate legal protection for Serb natural and legal entities in the province, says Marko Djuric, head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija.

"Following months of diplomatic efforts, our delegation managed to ensure with this agreement the recognition and execution of

This week's round of expert talks between the Belgrade and Pristina delegations will resume in Brussels Tuesday.

The Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija confirmed to Tanjug implementation of the agreements on telecommunications and the judiciary had been addressed on Monday, the first day of the talks, and that Belgrade's delegation once again raised with EU officials the issue of implementing the agreement on forming the Community of Serb Municipalities.

The director of the Centre for Euro-Atlantic Studies Jelena Milic said Monday she expected the Belgrade NATO Week conference to send a message of consensus about the recent past to make possible the planning of the future in mutual interest.

Serbian Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic spoke with Mauritian PM Anerood Jugnauth on the fringes of the summit of the International Organisation of La Francophonie in Antananarivo, thanking him for the support for Serbia's territorial integrity and non-recognition of Kosovo's independence.

They also discussed ways of improving political and economic ties and coordination of positions on international affairs, the Serbian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Kosovo Deputy Interior Minister Milan Radojević confirms to Tanjug that the entry of vehicles with BiH plates is banned in Kosovo.

"Based on the interpretation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo, taking into account that BiH authorities do not allow entrance of vehicles from Kosovo, the Kosovo Police has received instructions from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ban the entrance of vehicles with license plates of BiH", said Radojević to Tanjug last night.