The agreement reached by Belgrade and Pristina in the continuation of the dialogue on normalisation of relations removed the obstacle for the constitution of the Community of Serb municipalities (ZSO), Citizens' Initiative 'Freedom, Democracy, Justice' (GI SDP) stated on Tuesday. GI SDP recalled that the achievement of the agreement posed an obstacle to the talks on ZSO constitution for almost a year. Now that the obstacle has been removed, we hope that the agreement on constitution and functioning of ZSO would be achieved soon, GI SDP released. The Initiative expects that Serbs in Kosovo-M

BELGRADE - The Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia (NUNS) sent a request to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), calling on them to contact the relevant bodies at the EU headquarters in Brussels and seek further information concerning the incident that took place at Schuman Square in Brussels on Monday, when a protester from Kosovo physically attacked a Tanjug cameraman. The NUNS urged the IFJ and the EFJ, which are based in Brussels, to contact the relevant Belgian police and judiciary bodies and ensure that they initi

BELGRADE - Belgrade and Pristina will meet in Brussels to resume their talks on the normalization of relations, now facilitated by the new European foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, for the first time after ten months on Monday. The negotiating teams are now being headed by Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and Isa Mustafa, prime minister in the Kosovo government. The dialogue will begin after 6 p.m., as Prime Minister Vucic will first have talks with European Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn. The agenda of the dialogue

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will pay a one-day visit to Brussels on Monday, during which he will meet with Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn. Vucic will take part in a meeting held as part of the EU-facilitated dialogue on the normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina, which will be mediated by EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, the government's press office stated in a release.

BELGRADE - Director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric met with Hungarian Ambassador to Serbia Attila Pinter to discuss the support of Hungary to Serbia's EU integration and the continuation of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue. Djuric and Pinter agreed that it is very important to continue implementing the agreements reached as part of the Brussels Agreement (on the normalization of Belgrade-Pristina relations) and that progress should be made by taking practical steps, the Office for KiM said in a release on Friday. The fact that Belgrade supported the par

NEW YORK - Members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) welcomed the announced resumption of dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina scheduled to take place on February 9 and 10 in Brussels, while expressing concern over the violence that broke out during the recent protests in Kosovo. “With respect to the protests, let's be clear: All citizens have the democratic right to protest, but violence is illegal and unacceptable.

WASHINGTON - Head of the Serbian People's Party (SNP), which has no seats in the parliament, Nenad Popovic has met in Washington with head of US State Department office for Southern and Central Europe Steven Banks. Popovic stated at the meeting that Serbia had invested over USD 17 billion in its southern province of Kosovo in the past 50 years, adding that property ownership was a universal and undisputed right in every civilised country, according to a statement from the SNP. The US was built on this principle and that is why Washington is the best place to start a debate about respecting S

BELGRAD - The UN Security Council will on Friday hold a session on Kosovo to consider the latest report by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, during which Serbia's stands will be presented by First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic. In his regular quarterly report on the work of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), Ban called upon the Kosovo authorities to speed up the establishment of the specialist court for war crimes and to redouble their efforts in strengthening a broad public consensus around this issue. The UN Secretary-General welcomed the cons

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will meet with Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn in Brussels on February 9. Vucic and Hahn agreed to meet in a phone call on Thursday. The officials also agreed to intensify their contacts. Vucic and Hahn talked about Serbia's advancement along the EU path, the further dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, measures that the Serbian government has been taking, the country's economic development, and other issues relating to Serbia's EU agenda. Prime Minister Vucic and Commissioner Hah