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Serbia's Defence Minister, Aleksandar Vulin, has encountered opposition after he said that displaying President Aleksandar Vucic's portrait in ministry and army's offices would be a mark of respect for the country's "supreme commander".

Novica Antic, from the Army Union, has advised the minister to try to improve the position of soldiers instead.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will on Thursday receive Macedonia's Ambassador to Serbia Vera Jovanovska-Tipko.

The president's press service announced on Wednesday that the meeting will be held the next day at 11:00 hours CET, in the Presidency building in Belgrade.

The defence for the former Serbian State Security official Franko Simatovic dismissed testimony given by a witness who said Simatovic delivered arms to the Croatian Serbs in 1990.

Belgrade court found on Tuesday the retired Bosnian Serb general Marko Lugonja guilty of hiding the fugitive Ratko Mladic in his apartment in 2002.

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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic received on Monday in Belgrade the ambassador of the Russian Federation, Aleksandr Chepurin.

According to a statement from the presidency, cited by Tanjug, Vucic "thanked Chepurin for Russia's political support to Serbia."

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic received on Monday in Belgrade the ambassador of the Russian Federation, Aleksandr Chepurin.

According to a statement from the presidency, cited by Tanjug, Vucic "thanked Chepurin for Russia's political support to Serbia."

The Hague Tribunal has terminated proceedings against Jovo Ostojic, a member of Vojislav Seselj’s nationalist Serbian Radical Party who was wanted for alleged witness intimidation, after he died in June.

Permanent Under Secretary of the British Foreign Office Simon McDonald will visit Serbia on September 11 and 12.

A delegation of the House of Lords of the British Parliament will arrive here in late September, the Serbian government announced on Thursday.

Info Park is welcoming the initiative of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to grant Serbian citizenship to the family of 10-year old Farhad Nouri.

The US State Department said the Nazi-backed Serbian government of Milan Nedic, whose descendants are seeking his legal rehabilitation, was responsible for most of the WWII-era deaths of Serbia’s Jews.