Government of Serbia

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday evening there would be no transitional government as long as he was president as that would mean the country was being run by a tycoon and centres of power abroad.

In a public address, Vucic said that, as president, he would wait for all those he had invited to dialogue to come to discussions.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM and Socialist Party of Serbia leader Ivica Dacic on Wednesday dismissed as untrue reports by some media outlets that he was being considered by President Aleksandar Vucic as a potential successor to PM Ana Brnabic in case she resigned.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, who met with the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak and US special Western Balkans envoy Gabriel Escobar in Belgrade on Tuesday evening, said he wanted to believe the part of the international community that had the biggest influence on Pristina also had the mechanisms that could lead to commitments undertaken and s

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic on Tuesday received a courtesy visit from a Polish delegation headed by the chairman of the country's parliamentary committee on foreign affairs.

The parties agreed that bilateral relations are very good, the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM and Socialist Party of Serbia leader Ivica Dacic said on Tuesday he had had a good conversation with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic earlier in the day and that unity of the people and political stability were the top state and national interest.

"A very good discussion with President Aleksandar Vucic," Dacic remarked in an Instagram post.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said on Tuesday she had made calculations with President Aleksandar Vucic and Finance Minister Sinisa Mali to see what additional economic and political measures could be taken, and noted that the citizens would be satisfied with the measures, to be announced on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic met on Friday with UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director Inger Andersen, who is on her first working visit to Serbia and the region.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met with members of the German Bundestag's Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid on Wednesday to discuss bilateral relations, reform processes in Serbia and the situation in Kosovo-Metohija.

The Serbian Army is at the highest level of combat readiness, in accordance with the decision of the Supreme Commander and the President of the Republic, according to the Ministry of Defense.
The army, together with other security forces of the Republic of Serbia, is monitoring the development of the situation on the ground.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday evening the government had reacted well after deadly mass shootings earlier this month and that the opposition had proposed no concrete measures.

Speaking to Pink TV, Vucic said the government had reacted appropriately in "a state of shock."