Serbia

STRASBOURG - The head of the Serbian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Biljana Pantic Pilja said on Tuesday evening the body had made a "disgraceful decision" by adopting a recommendation to grant CoE membership to the so-called Kosovo, trampling all norms of international law.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic spoke on the phone with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Tuesday to inform him of the pressure on Serbia and ask for friendly and brotherly support from the people of Azerbaijan.

BELGRADE - Commenting on Zagreb's recent decision to ban him from visiting the Jasenovac memorial complex in Croatia, Serbian Minister without porfolio Djordje Milicevic said on Tuesday he could not be banned from going to the complex privately to lay flowers in a tribute to the victims of the WWII Jasenovac death camp, run by Croatia's Ustashas.

BELGRADE - Title holders Red Star were on Tuesday drawn to play Partizan in the semi-finals of the Serbian football cup, with Radnicki Kragujevac to face Vojvodina Novi Sad in the other semi-final.

Both semi-final ties are scheduled for April 24.

BELGRADE/BANJALUKA - Imposing a Srebrenica resolution on the UN General Assembly agenda is a culmination of violence against law, a scandal and a precedent, Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic said on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic spoke by phone with Azerbaijani FM Jeyhun Bayramov about the strategic partnership between Serbia and Azerbaijan.

The topics addressed in the conversation included cooperation at multilateral level, the Serbian MFA said in a post on the social media network X.

MOSTAR - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday he had had another open and concrete discussion with the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak about growing challenges that were ahead, the position of the Serbs, developments in Kosovo-Metohija and the shrinking space for resolving outstanding issues through constructive dialogue and respect of internati

Greece is transforming into a hub for exporting quality agri-food products as Minister of Development Kostas Skrekas stressed at the opening of the modern export hub of AB Vassilopoulos supermarkets in Thessaloniki.

MOSTAR - Kicking off a two-day working visit to Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday renewed direct flights between Belgrade and Mostar would be very significant for connecting peoples and business communities.

NOVI SAD - Serbian Minister of Internal and External Trade Tomislav Momirovic said on Monday Serbia would fight to connect regional markets, as well as to protect its interests.