MITROVICA - Vladeta Kostic, a Serbian MP from Kosovo-Metohija, called on the international community on Tuesday to take all measures necessary to prevent the spread of anti-Serb violence in the province.

"Due to the increasingly frequent incidents in Kosovo-Metohija, I call on Eulex. Kfor and Unmik officials to react urgently and take all measures necessary to prevent the spread of violence and find the vandals who have assumed the right to attack the property of returnees", Kostic said.

BELGRADE - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has hosted a reception for the participants of a regional conference on involvement of Western Balkan states in United Nations peacekeeping missions.

Serbia will make a full contribution to the role of the United Nations in preserving peace in the world, Dacic said late Monday.

"We cannot influence the creation of global policies, but we can make a contribution to preserving security and peace in the world through peacekeeping missions," Dacic said.

BRUSSELS - Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic will arrive in Brussels Tuesday for a farewell meeting with outgoing EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.

Over the last two years, Ashton has facilitated the dialogue on normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina, where Dacic participated as prime minister in the previous Serbian government.

Ashton’s place at the helm of the EU’s external action will be taken over by Federica Mogherini, former Italian foreign minister.

The Director of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo, Marko Djuric, asked the Head of UNMIK, Farid Zarif, to further encourage KFOR, EULEX and Pristina institutions, to provide safety for Serbs in the province.

After the meeting with Zarif, he addressed journalists and said that incidents which occurred after the football match between the Serbian and Albanian national teams in Belgrade, as well as incidents against Serbs in Kosovo, and those against Albanians in other parts of Serbia, deserve condemnation.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said during a meeting with United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Herve Ladsous in Belgrade on Monday that Serbia stood ready to increase its contributions to UN peacekeeping operations.

Nikolic stressed the importance of UN peacekeeping forces and their contribution to the preservation of stability in the world, especially in Southeastern Europe.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic wrote on Twitter that the project of Greater Albania is not only Serbia's nightmare, but also the nightmare of Europe and all mankind, stressing that it must be prevented.

"People who say that Greater Albania is our nightmare are absolutely right. But this is not only our nightmare, it is also the nightmare of Europe and all mankind, and we will do all in our power to prevent it. I hope that normal Albanians will understand this message," Vucic wrote on Twitter.