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BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic met with Interpol Secretary-General Jurgen Stock on Wednesday, conveying Serbia's interest in deepening its intensive cooperation with the organisation.

Dacic noted that the Serbian Interior Ministry was a dependable partner in the fight against organised crime, the ministry said in a statement.

BRUSSELS - A trilateral meeting of Belgrade's delegation headed by Petar Petkovic, director of the government Office for Kosovo-Metohija, a Pristina delegation and EU facilitators is underway in Brussels as part of a new round of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.

The meeting began shortly before 10 am.

BELGRADE - The Serbian dinar's official median exchange rate against the euro is 117.1216 dinars for one euro on Wednesday, which is a slight change from Tuesday, the National Bank of Serbia said.

The dinar is steady against the euro m-o-m, up by 0.1 pct y-o-y and steady relative to the beginning of the year.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Marko Djuric received EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi on Tuesday, noting that full EU membership was a strategic commitment and a priority of Serbia's foreign policy.

BELGRADE - National Bank of Serbia (NBS) Governor Jorgovanka Tabakovic said on Tuesday Serbian inflation was expected to enter the target tolerance band as early as in May.

"Inflation in Serbia has been on a solid downward trajectory, and over the previous months it has slowed even faster than we anticipated," Tabakovic said at the presentation of the May 2024 Inflation Report.

BELGRADE - A UN General Assembly debate on a Srebrenica resolution will most likely be postponed again until May 22, Tanjug learns.

This means Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will be travelling to Kotor, Montenegro, for a May 16 summit of EU and Western Balkan leaders.

BELGRADE - EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi met with Serbian PM Milos Vucevic and the members of his cabinet on Tuesday morning to discuss "outstanding issues" of a reform agenda under an EU Growth Plan for the Western Balkans.

BRUSSELS - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak says a sustainable temporary solution to the issue of the use of the Serbian dinar in Kosovo-Metohija can be reached through "flexibility and compromise" from both sides.

BELGRADE - At a meeting with Russian Ambassador to Belgrade Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic noted that preserving stability in the region was vital for Serbia and that Pristina's self-willed moves as well as initiatives such as a draft UN General Assembly resolution on Srebrenica were in no way contributing to the reconciliation process, trust-building and cooper

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced he would travel to New York on Monday evening for a UN General Assembly session on a Srebrenica resolution.

Vucic made the announcement at a press conference with EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi in Belgrade.