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BRUSSELS - A trilateral meeting of EU special envoy Miroslav Lajcak and the chief negotiators of Belgrade and Pristina, Petar Petkovic and Besnik Bislimi, began in Brussels on Thursday morning as part of a new round of the EU-facilitated Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday Danka Ilic, a two-year-old girl from Bor, eastern Serbia, who went missing last Tuesday, had been killed and that two people who had admitted to having committed the crime had been arrested.

BELGRADE - The Serbian dinar's official median exchange rate against the euro is 117.1403 dinars for one euro on Thursday, which is a slight change from Wednesday, 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 Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic on Wednesday called elections for the Belgrade city assembly for June 2.

Brnabic signed a decision to call the polls in the parliament building.

Calling for a fair and honest election race, Brnabic urged all citizens to vote and show the direction Belgrade should be heading and developing in.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government will hold an extraordinary session on Thursday 10 am, with President Aleksandar Vucic to attend, a source in the government has confirmed to Tanjug.

The session will also be attended by Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic, government ministers, security, army and police officials and directors of public enterprises.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic met with Armenian Deputy FM Paruyr Hovhannisyan in Belgrade on Wednesday.

The parties expressed interest in further development of bilateral relations, based on the traditional friendship and close cultural and historical ties between the two states and peoples, the Serbian MFA said in a statement.

BELGRADE - The whip of the opposition National Movement of Serbia party in the Serbian parliament Miroslav Aleksic said on Wednesday no agreement had been reached with the ruling coalition on Belgrade local elections at a meeting of the parliamentary Collegium earlier in the day.

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic announced on Wednesday she would call Belgrade local elections for June 2 by the end of the day.

Speaking to reporters in the parliament, Brnabic said there was no possibility of the date being postponed.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday he had had an open and substantial discussion with US Ambassador to Belgrade Christopher Hill.

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic said on Wednesday she extremely regretted the fact no agreement had been reached with opposition parties at a Collegium meeting on implementation of ODIHR recommendations and electoral conditions for the upcoming local polls in Belgrade and several municipalities in Serbia after the opposition had refused to even consider an alternative proposal