Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

WASHINGTON - Serbian Ambassador to the US Marko Djuric said on Friday the signing of a MoU between the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the US State Department opened another major channel of possibilities for long-term advancement of capabilities for cooperation between the two countries.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic and US Ambassador to Serbia Christopher Hill signed on Thursday a MoU between the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the US Department of State.

At a joint press conference, Dacic said Serbia believed contacts with the US, including exchanges of bilateral visits, must be stepped up.

Threat of arbitration

Serbia's borders disputes. Illustration: Igor Vujicic/BIRN

In 2004, Serbia and Croatia formed a joint commission to address the dispute, which in turn formed an expert group to compare information from each side and which is due to meet again in mid-March.

Croatian officials announced on Tuesday that a man who recently returned from Milan in Italy has become the first confirmed coronavirus case in the country.

"Today at 11.50 we got test results for a Croat who was staying in Milan. He shows milder signs of the illness," Health Minister Vili Beros told a press conference.

The Special Representative

The news this week that veteran US diplomat Matthew Palmer had been appointed as his country's Special Representative for the Western Balkans has generated a great deal of excitement and expectation in the Balkans.

Those are the following countries: São Tom and Prncipe, Surinam, Guinea-Bissau, Burundi, Liberia, Papua New Guinea, Lesotho, Commonwealth Dominica, Grenada, Union of Comoros, the Solomon Islands, Madagascar and Palau for which the Ministry submitted to the Radio Free Europe (RFE) copies of diplomatic notes in which they inform the Ministry on their decision.

They were both in Poland for the meeting of foreign ministers of the Berlin Process.

The meeting was held during the 8th summit of the heads of state and Government in Managua of this important regional initiative.

The Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced this.

The blaze, that started around 20:00 hours local time on Sunday, resulted in two offices burning down completely, Mission chief Milan Milanovic has said.

According to him, the fire was noticed by accident by one employee in the building and by passers-by, while firefighters arrived quickly.

The protest came after member of the Serbian National Assembly and leader of the opposition SRS party Vojislav Seselj caused an incident during the visit of a delegation of the Croatian Assembly.

But the ambassador said that Serbian officials did not do anything to make the Croatian delegation cut short its visit.