Serbia

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic received EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi on Wednesday to discuss topics including reforms and alignment of national regulations with European laws.

Brnabic said that, in her new post, she would continue to advocate strengthening institutions and democratic principles in Serbia, an official statement said.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Milos Vucevic received Russian Ambassador to Belgrade Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko on Wednesday.

Vucevic said preservation of regional stability was a strategic interest of Serbia and that a UNGA resolution on Srebrenica was a sensitive issue that was not contributing to deepening of cooperation and building good-neighborly relations.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister without portfolio Nenad Popovic laid a wreath at a memorial to the WWII liberators of Belgrade on Wednesday to commemorate May 15, 1945, the day when WWII military operations ended in the territory of the former Yugoslavia.

Poplovic laid the wreath as an envoy of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic received US Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Elizabeth Allen on Wednesday to discuss the pressure facing Serbia and the Serbs and asked the US to step up its engagement and use its leverage to help preserve stability in the region.

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic met with Interpol Secretary-General Jurgen Stock on Wednesday, conveying Serbia's interest in deepening its intensive cooperation with the organisation.

Dacic noted that the Serbian Interior Ministry was a dependable partner in the fight against organised crime, the ministry said in a statement.

NEW YORK - A UN General Assembly session on a draft resolution on Srebrenica has been scheduled for May 23, according to the UNGA website.

After two postponements, a debate on the draft was due to be held on Wednesday but has meanwhile been postponed again for another week.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Marko Djuric received EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi on Tuesday, noting that full EU membership was a strategic commitment and a priority of Serbia's foreign policy.

BELGRADE - National Bank of Serbia (NBS) Governor Jorgovanka Tabakovic said on Tuesday Serbian inflation was expected to enter the target tolerance band as early as in May.

"Inflation in Serbia has been on a solid downward trajectory, and over the previous months it has slowed even faster than we anticipated," Tabakovic said at the presentation of the May 2024 Inflation Report.

BELGRADE - EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi met with Serbian PM Milos Vucevic and the members of his cabinet on Tuesday morning to discuss "outstanding issues" of a reform agenda under an EU Growth Plan for the Western Balkans.

BRUSSELS - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak says a sustainable temporary solution to the issue of the use of the Serbian dinar in Kosovo-Metohija can be reached through "flexibility and compromise" from both sides.