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BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday the volume of Serbia-Italy bilateral trade would become incomparably higher once Stellantis started manufacturing electric cars in Kragujevac, central Serbia, next year.

Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti complained on Tuesday that Belgrade is trying to avoid commitments that Serbia President Aleksandar Vucic made when the two countries verbally agreed on a normalisation plan and its implementation at the weekend.

BELGRADE - Italian FM Antonio Tajani said on Tuesday in Belgrade Italy wanted greater presence in Serbia and the Balkans, which he noted had strategic significance.

The region must feel loved and valued by neighbouring countries, Tajani said.

BELGRADE- Italy is a sincere friend to Serbia and it has never been among the countries putting Serbia under grave pressure, but one that opened the door to cooperation, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday.

Vucic was speaking at the opening of a Serbia-Italy business and scientific forum, also attended by Italian FM Antonio Tajani.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met on Tuesday in Belgrade with Italian Deputy PM and FM Antonio Tajani, thanking him for his friendship and personal engagement towards taking the traditionally good friendly relations and strategic partnership between the two countries to an even higher level.

BELGRADE - The Serbian dinar's official median exchange rate against the euro is 117.3161 dinars for one euro on Tuesday, which is a slight change from Monday, the National Bank of Serbia said.

The dinar is steady against the euro m-o-m and up by 0.3 pct y-o-y.

BELGRADE - Serbia is Spain's main external trade partner in the Western Balkans and accounts for over half of the trade volume between Spain and the region, Jose Maria Blasco Ruiz, head of the Infrastructure, Health and ICT Division of the Spanish exports and investment agency ICEX, told Tanjug on Monday.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic announced on Monday 112 pct growth of Serbia's services exports between 2017 and 2022 had been the highest in Europe.

BELGRADE - Italian FM Antonio Tajani says a Community of Serb Municipalities in Kosovo-Metohija should be formed without further delay and that a March 18 agreement from Ohrid, North Macedonia, presents an exceptional opportunity for continued normalisation of Belgrade-Pristina relations.

Dragoljub Simonovic, the former president of the Belgrade municipality of Grocka and a member of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, SNS, has been sentenced to five years in prison for inciting other persons to jeopardize the life of journalist Milan Jovanovic.