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A majority of members of the Kosovo assembly in Priština rejected on Thursday demands of the opposition Self-Determination Movement. The Self-Determination Movement requested the Kosovo police to unilaterally remove the roadblocks in northern Kosovo and called on the Kosovo Albanian government to cancel the dialogue with Belgrade. With 54 votes …

A member of the Kosovo dialogue team says the EU envoy has called for a new round of talks between Pristina and Belgrade in November, and Kosovo is willing to attend. The next round of Kosovo-Serbia talks, on technical issues, may be held in mid-November, if the two sides accept …

Northern Kosovo Serbs removed a part of the barricade on the Kosovska Mitrovica-Ribariće road in the village of Zupče on Thursday morning. The barricade is located on the road leading to the Brnjak administrative crossing.

The speaker of parliament, Jakup Krasniqi, says it’s not up to the Kosovo government to remove Serb barricades in the north as that is the responsibility of international peacekeepers. A senior official in Kosovo says the government in Pristina expects NATO peacekeepers in KFOR to remove Serb roadblocks erected in …

Serbia and Croatia will begin conducting joint military exercises if an agreement is ratified by the countries’ two respective governments, Serbian Justice Minister Snezana Malovic said today. Elaborating on the document before Serbian MPs, Malovic said today that the agreement opens possibilities for conducting joint military exercises.

The Kosovan government plans to start an operation to lift barricades in North Kosovo, Interior Minister Bajram Rexhepi said. According to him the government plans to kick off an operation, as the opposition Self-Determination has asked.

KFOR Commander Erhard Drews believes that the Wednesday meeting in Zvečan is unnecessary. Even though Kosovo Serbs have invited him, Drews will not appear at the meeting, said commander’s spokesperson on Tuesday evening.

A Serb leader in North Kosovo says the 50,000 Serbs living there want to merge with Serbia, and will not live in an independent Kosovo, whatever the EU and NATO say. The head of the Serbian National Council, Nebojsa Jovic, says that 50,000 Kosovo Serbs living in the area north …

There was no “significant progress” in the meeting with Serbian President Boris Tadić late on Sunday, said leaders of Serb municipalities from northern Kosovo. After the meeting in Belgrade, they stated that they received assurance that agreement on the deployment of Kosovo Albanian

KFOR commander general Erhard Drevs has said a new meeting with representatives of Kosovan Serbs might take place on Saturday. Meanwhile, ethnic Serbs are reinforcing the barricades close to the village of Zupce.