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Bosnia's Foreign Ministry on Monday confirmed that Milica Markovic, an MP in the House of Representatives and a member of parliament's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe was being investigated for possible corruption.

BELGRADE - Serbian Finance Minister Dusan Vujovic will next week attend the annual Euromoney conference, a Vienna banking forum of central and eastern European states that will bring together finance ministers and national bank governors, as well as many experts in the field.

A medical student from Armenia, who has been part of an exchange program at Istanbul University’s Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine, has been arrested over allegedly downloading and sharing child pornography, daily Habertürk reported on Jan. 15.

The banking forum of central and eastern European states will bring together finance ministers and national bank governors and many experts in the field.

Vujovic will speak at an introductory panel alongside the finance ministers of Croatia, Slovakia, Armenia, Georgia and Lithuania, the Ministry of Finance said in a statement.

This could open new opportunities for development of business links, Putin said, and added that discussions were underway.

Te broadcaster paid special attention to Putin's meeting in the Kremlin earlier this week with Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic.

Kiev has welcomed the adoption of a UN General Assembly resolution on human rights in Crimea, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

Serbia voted against the passing of the resolution, tabled by Kiev, Sputnik writes on Wednesday.

Serbia voted against the passing of the resolution, tabled by Kiev, Sputnik writes on Wednesday.

The resolution calls upon Russia to fulfill 12 recommendations in order to "urgently put an end to all human rights violations in Crimea."

Turkey has said it is still committed to the protocols signed with Armenia in 2009, which have not yet been ratified by either side, “despite Yerevan’s negative stance” in proceeding with the normalization of bilateral ties and the establishment of diplomatic relations.

Situation has remained volatile in the mountainous Caucasus region between Asia and Europe for the last few days, as Armenia continues violating ceasefire with Azerbaijan.

The agency said last week that the November 21 draft mentioned Turkey and Serbia as some of the countries that could be added to the list.

But Serbia is now seen as "compliant with EU's demands for additional commitments," the report said, without providing any other information.