Tanjug

BELGRADE - Most Serbians would not accept a NATO apology for the 1999 bombing campaign and are against their country's membership in the alliance, even though they chiefly blame the intervention on Slobodan Milosevic's policy, shows the latest survey, released by the Institute for European Affairs on Friday.

BELGRADE - If incumbent PM Aleksandar Vucic wins the upcoming presidential elections in Serbia, the decision on who the new PM is to be will be made in April or May.

BELGRADE - The EU is getting farther away from the Western Balkans, an area that is natural to it, with growing popular frustration in the region over the lack of a tangible EU, says Slovak FM Miroslav Lajcak, who will soon take over as president of the United Nations General Assembly.

BELGRADE, March 23 (Tanjug) - Serbian Minister of Economy Goran Knezevic on Thursday ceremonially opened the 53rd international Belgrade Car Show and the 11th international MotoPassion motorcycle show, which will feature over 400 exhibitors from 30 countries.

The events, held under the slogan of The Years Go By, the Passions Never End, closes on April 2.

MIAMI - Serbia's Viktor Troicki has got off to a successful start at the Miami Masters tennis tournament after beating Brazil's Thiago Monteiro 5-7, 6-3, 6-1 in the first round.

He will next face Canada's Milos Raonic.

Tanjug file photo, T. Valic

BRUSSELS/PRISTINA - EU officials have urged the Kosovo government to end the delay of the establishment of the Community of Serb Municipalities, the EU Office in Kosovo said in a statement.

The statement was released after Tuesday's first meeting of a special group on normalisation as part of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the EU and the Kosovo government.

BELGRADE - Red Star Belgrade have missed a huge opportunity to get a step closer to the Top 8 stage of the basketball Euroleague after a 66-64 (17-9, 13-8, 12-26, 9-10, 6-5) overtime defeat to Olympiacos Piraeus at Belgrade's Kombank Arena late Wednesday.

BELGRADE - The Serbian diaspora sent home a total of 2.7 bln euros in 2016 - about 8 pct of the country's GDP, Tanjug has learned at the National Bank of Serbia (NBS).

As in previous years, most of the receipts came from Germany, Switzerland, Austria and France - countries with sizable Serbian diasporas.

MIAMI - Serbia's Dusan Lajovic is through to the main draw of the Miami Masters tennis tournament after beating Argentine Nicolas Kicker 6-4, 6-3 in the second qualifying round.

In the opening round, Lajovic will play world number 74 Kevin Anderson of South Africa in what will be their first-ever encounter.

Tanjug file photo, T. Valic

BELGRADE - Following media reports that he will submit a retirement request on May 31, incumbent Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic told the Vecernje novosti and Politika dailies his potential retirement did not mean he would stop working.