Ivica Dacic addressed a UN gathering in New York on Sunday and spoke about the destruction of monuments of cultural and historical heritage in Kosovo.

He asked that "Kosovo not be rewarded for such activity" by allowing Pristina to join UNESCO.

Speaking during a gathering dubbed "Protecting cultural heritage - an imperative for humanity," the Serbian foreign minister said that "vandalism toward cultural monuments cannot be tolerated in any way."

Brussels has asked Zagreb to provide an urgent explanation of its decision to close the border crossings with Serbia for trucks.

A spokesperson for EU foreign policy chief told a press conference on Friday that the request was sent "in the context of an investigation of the legal service of the European Commission."

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday he was shocked to see how refugees were treated at Hungary's border with Serbia.

Ban "underscored it is not acceptable," according to Tanjug.

He said that refugees and migrants in Europe should be treated with dignity and their human rights respected.

On Wednesday, Hungarian police fired tear gas and water cannons at refugees from the Middle East trying to reach Western Europe.

Albanian National Army organization is demanding that authorities in Pristina "withdraw their signature" from the agreement on the Community of Serb Municipalities.

The agreement was reached last month in Brussels during the EU-sponsored Kosovo negotiations.

The Albanian National Army (ANA) announced they were "ready to intervene at any moment."

After six months of collecting funds and building a new house, the Jevtic family from Rajanovce near Kamenica/Kamenice has finally entered their new home.

A news report of TV B92 showing how this family lived under constant threat that dilapidated ceiling of the old house could collapse at any moment, crashing the bed where little Andjela had slept with her parents, initiated a strong solidarity campaign.

The future Community/Association of Serbian Municipalities (ZSO) should be formed very quickly, said Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic.

According to him, it will represent "the first political authority of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija since 1999."

Asked whether the ZSO was "a step towards a partition of Kosovo," Dacic told the Belgrade-based TV Pink this was "not being discussed at the moment."

A declaration on bilateral issues has been included in the conclusions of the Summit on the Western Balkans held in Vienna, Austria.

The declaration was signed by regional foreign ministers who took part in the gathering.

A new round of the EU-facilitated dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina is set to take place in Brussels on August 25. Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo's Prime Minister Isa Mustafa will take part, the European External Action Service said in a release on Friday.

Although Ivica Dacic recently announced that Greek PM Alexis Tsipras will visit Serbia in the fall, two Belgrade based newspapers say this will not happen

Thus the daily Blic writes that the package of conditions that Greece must fulfill to receive financial assistance from the West includes recognizing Kosovo.

Greece is one of five EU countries that do not recognize the unilateral declaration of independence made by ethnic Albanians in 2008.

Civic Initiative SDP leader Oliver Ivanovic's condition has significantly deteriorated on the seventh day of his hunger strike in a Kosovska Mitrovica jail.