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BELGRADE - Zagreb will not hinder Serbia along the path toward the EU, Croatian President Ivo Josipovic has said before a meeting of South-East Europe (SEE) leaders in Dubrovnik on July 15.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic will attend a two-day meeting of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York starting on Monday and inform the members of the council about the extent of the damage caused by the May floods in Serbia and also invite them to take part in the donor conference in Brussels on July 16.

SMEDEREVO - Blast furnace no. 2 at the Smederevo-based steel plant Zelezara Smederevo was ignited on Monday, restoring the production after two months.

The first tons of liquid iron will be transported to the steel mill in the next two to three days, while other sections of the plant will be put into operation successively.

PM discusses Kosovo, ties with Russia, EU bid

BELGRADE -- Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić has said that Belgrade is "committed to normalizing relations with Priština."

He added that "recognizing the independence of Kosovo," proclaimed unilaterally by ethnic Albanians, "has never been a topic of negotiations between Belgrade and Priština in Brussels."

Croatia "won't blackmail neighbors" - president

BELGRADE -- Croatian President Ivo Josipović said that his country would not put obstacles on Serbia's path towards membership in the European Union.

BELGRADE - Famous Serbian actor Bora Todorovic died at the Clinical Centre of Serbia in Belgrade on Monday, the hospital told Tanjug.

The Belgrade media reported earlier that Todorovic had undergone an appendectomy, but his condition deteriorated afterwards and he slipped into a coma.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Head of the Serbian government office for Kosovo Marko Djuric has said there can be no true normalisation of the relations between Belgrade and Pristina while Serbia's property is being stolen in Kosovo.

“We believe that the current changes in the law are not enough to have a completely democratised oversight of the agency,” said the Centre for Euro Atlantic Studies, CEAS, a Belgrade-based think tank.

PARIS – Accession to the European Union (EU) is the main goal and the only possible path for Serbia, but it is not a bar to having the best possible relations with Russia, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said.

BERLIN - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said that Belgrade is committed to normalizing relations with Pristina, but recognizing the independence of Kosovo, proclaimed unilaterally by ethnic Albanians, has never been a topic of negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina in Brussels.