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NEW YORK - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly session in New York on Wednesday.

NEW YORK - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly session in New York on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday power prices would not go up in the next 6 months, and that there would be no power cuts this winter.

There will be enough natural gas, he pointed out, calling on everyone inthe country to save power and pay their gas and electricity bills on time.

BELGRADE - The motives behind the latest demolition of Cyrillic signs in Vukovar overstepped the bounds of acceptable behavior for the marking of anniversaries and election campaigns, took on the aspect of a historical-civilizational conflict, even the scale of antagonism against the Slavic literacy, Serbs and Serbia, said President of the Serb National Council in Croatia Milorad Pupovac.

VIENNA - The Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPO) supported on Thursday Belgrade's Pride Parade scheduled for Sunday.

Head of the SPO delegation in the European Parliament Evelyn Regner stressed that there is no place for discrimination in Europe.

BELGRADE - The ministry of public administration and local self-government has stated that the Serbian government is now in consultative talks with representatives of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the principles of fiscal consolidation, as the basis for possible negotiations.

Stefanovic: Decision on Pride Parade tomorrow

BELGRADE -- ''The final decision on the Pride Parade in Belgrade will be made tomorrow and what media states that everything is already settled, is not true.''

Fuele: First two chapters may be opened by end of year

NEW YORK -- EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele believes that there is a chance for Brussels and Belgrade to cross an important threshold before the year ends.

BELGRADE - The police will perform all tasks put before it by the state and the police unions that have been announcing a strike since Friday are doing nothing good for the citizens, but merely trying to benefit personally, Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - The National Bank of Serbia (NBS) sold at the Interbank Foreign Exchange Market on Wednesday EUR 20 million to prevent the dinar from dropping too much, so the Serbian currency will go down by 0.1 percent against the euro on Thursday to set the middle exchange rate at RSD 118.6959 for EUR 1, the NBS has stated.