Latest News from Serbia
Mali: Serbia receiving international confirmation it is on right track
BELGRADE - Serbian Finance Minister Sinisa Mali said on Monday a conclusion by the Council of Europe money laundering watchdog MONEYVAL that Serbia had made progress on development of an anti-money laundering and terror financing system confirmed the country was on the right track.
The conclusion is included in the latest MONEYVAL report, published earlier in the day.
Vucic, Lajcak meet in Belgrade
BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak at the Presidency of Serbia in central Belgrade shortly after 6 pm on Friday.
The meeting is also attended by the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic.
Brnabic meets with OSCE, US ambassadors
BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met with the head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia Jan Braathu and US Ambassador Christopher Hill on Friday, noting the significance of cooperation in the past years.
Brnabic said she hoped the successful cooperation would be continued in the future as well, with the next Serbian government and with her personally.
Soder: Serbia's economic indicators going strongly up, we will support EXPO 2027
BELGRADE - Minister-President of the German State of Bavaria Markus Soder said in Belgrade on Friday Serbian economic indicators were on a strong upward trajectory and announced that cooperation with Serbia would be stepped up and that Bavarian companies would take part in EXPO 2027, to be hosted by Belgrade.
Soder: Serbia key state for W Balkan stability, important partner for Bavaria
BELGRADE - Minister-President of the German state of Bavaria Markus Soder, who is on a working visit to Serbia, thanked Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic for Friday's welcome at the Nikola Tesla Airport in Belgrade and noted that Serbia was a key state for stability in the Western Balkans as well as an important and stable partner for Bavaria.
Serbia's January external trade at 4.81 bln euros
BELGRADE - Serbia's external goods trade in January totalled 4.81 bln euros, which is a 4.9 pct decline y-o-y, according to figures released by the national statistical office.
Goods exports were worth 2,142.3 mln euros, declining by 1.6 pct y-o-y.
Goods imports totalled 2,675.0 mln euros, declining by 7.5 pct y-o-y.
Vucic welcomes Bavarian minister-president at Nikola Tesla Airport
BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic welcomed Markus Soder, Minister-President of the German state of Bavaria, at Belgrade's Nikola Tesla Airport on Friday.
Soder is on a working visit to Serbia.
In a post on his buducnostsrbijeav Instagram account, Vucic wrote that he was greatly honoured to host one of the most influential people in Bavaria and Germany.
Dacic meets with HCCH secretary general
BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic met with Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) Secretary General Christophe Bernasconi in Belgrade on Thursday, underscoring Serbia's commitment to respect of international law as one of the postulates of its foreign policy and noting the HCCH's significant contribution to unification of the rules of private international law.