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A group of companies that has signed most recent contracts to refurbish street lighting in Serbia with LED lighting - whose close links to the Hungarian and Serbian authorities was the subject of a BIRN investigation in June - has won three more contracts worth over 8 million euros.

Pellegrini, who had invited Brnabic to visit Bratislava, organized a ceremonial welcome in front of the building of the Slovakian government, the Serbian government announced.

After that, a tête-à-tête meeting of the two prime ministers was held, as well as a working lunch, organized by Pellegrini in honor of Brnabic.

Brnabic will visit the Czech Republic together with Minister of Finance Sinisa Mali at the invitation of Prime Minister Andrej Babis.

Brnabic will meet with President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman and chairmen of both Houses of Parliament Radek Vondracek and Jaroslav Kubera.

BELGRADE - Slovakia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak will pay an official visit to Serbia on Friday and Saturday.

Lajcak will meet with Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic on Friday, the presidential press office said in a statement.