News archive of September 2016

Turkish Youth and Sports Minister Akif Çağatay Kılıç has said that women's most significant trait was motherhood, adding that women and men "are not equal in all areas."

Gazprom has said it received through diplomatic channels a survey permit for two strings of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline project's offshore section in Turkish territorial waters, in a written statement on Sept. 29. 

BELGRADE - The deputy head of the Serbian Office for European Integration, Srdjan Majstorovic, said late Monday he expected Serbia to open three more chapters in its EU accession talks by end-2016 - chapters 5, 25 and 26.

BELGRADE - The plan is to open all chapters in the EU accession talks by 2018, Serbia's chief EU negotiator Tanja Miscevic said late Monday, adding that three more negotiation chapters - on public procurements, science and research and education, culture and youth - could realistically be opened by the end of 2016.

BELGRADE - Southeast European countries are registering higher growth and a decline of high unemployment rates, and Serbia, as the largest economy in the region, has made the biggest contribution to this trend, says World Bank Country Director for Southeast Europe Ellen Goldstein.

ROME - The tensions that have returned to the Western Balkans are at the most dangerous level since the end of the wars of the 1990s, Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic has told Italy's La Repubblica, noting that he had been warning German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian PM Matteo Renzi and other European officials of this for months.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic on Tuesday met with French Ambassador Christine Moro and a delegation of the Andre Maginot National Federation (FNAM), which brings together over 250,000 descendants of French WWI and WWII veterans.

The delegation was headed by the FNAM President, Admiral Henri Lacaille.

BELGRADE - Exports have become the main factor of Serbia's economic growth, with household spending playing an increasing role in it, says Lazar Sestovic, the chief World Bank economist for Serbia.

Exports have been excellent over the past seven months, he told a press conference.

BANJALUKA - Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik said in Banjaluka Tuesday he had still not received a summons for questioning by the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo over the Republika Srpska Day referendum, adding that, once he got one, he would obey it.

WUHAN - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic is through to the last 16 of the WTA tennis tournament in Wuhan, China, after beating world number 3 Garbine Muguruza of Spain 6-4, 7-6 (7-2) in Round 2 on Tuesday.

Jankovic won after 102 minutes of play and is now 2-3 head-to-head against Muguruza.