Libya

Serbia and the US continue to dispute the causes of the deaths in Libya of the two kidnapped Serbian embassy employes, Sladjana Stankovic and Jovica Stepic.

Belgrade maintains a US air strike against the Islamic State, ISIS, last week killed them but Pentagon officials blame a "criminal group", which it says used the US bombing as an alibi to kill them.

Serbia is ready to cooperate with the United States in order to discover the truth about the deaths of two Serbian citizens in Libya, says Nebojsa Stefanovic.

The interior minister told Belgrade-based Pink TV on Friday that "Serbia is ready to listen to America if it has any evidence, and anything to back up its claims."

"The U.S. military believes that an airstrike against IS in Libya did not kill two kidnapped Serbian diplomats, as Belgrade has asserted," writes a U.S. daily.

The target of American forces in Libya was not the location that Serbia shared with U.S. agencies in trying to free two kidnapped Serbian officials.

U.S. Ambassador Kyle Scott told this to FoNet.

Aleksandar Vucic has invited the Unites States to provide evidence to prove that Serbian embassy staffers in Libya did not die in a U.S. aistrike.

"We don't know the basis for Pentagon's stance there was no reliable information two Serbian diplomats were killed by American bombs," says Nebojsa Stefanovic.

An airplane carrying the remains of Serbian citizens Sladjana Stankovic and Jovica Stepic landed at Belgrade's Nikola Tesla Airport at 19:25 CET on Tuesday.

Stankovic and Stepic were employees of the Serbian embassy in Tripoli, Libya.

Libya faces severe shortages of life-saving medicine and about one million people will soon be in dire need of help, a U.N. humanitarian official warned, as warring factions hamper efforts to end chaos and form a unity government. 

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic spoke on the phone on Monday with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

Kerry said on the occasion he will "inform the Serbian government and the prime minister in person of all details of a U.S. investigation into the killing of two Serbian diplomats in Libya."

A leading military expert has called for a Serbian parliamentary committee to investigate the kidnap by ISIS of two employees of Belgrade's embassy in Tripoli, after Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic at the weekend revealed a new link between the incident and the arms trade.