Serbia

BELGRADE - Swiss-Serbian bilateral and economic cooperation has been successful for many years, and the two countries will work towards strengthening those ties further in the time that lies ahead, the participants of a conference on Swiss-Serbian bilateral relations said on Thursday.

BAKU - Serbian Minister of Youth and Sports Vanja Udovicic and his Azerbaijani counterpart Azad Rahimov met in Baku Thursday and stressed the need for realizing the objectives of a Memorandum of Understanding between the two countries and for establishing cooperation in the field of sports infrastructure.

"EULEX prosecutor forged statement in Ivanović indictment"

BELGRADE -- In his indictment against Oliver Ivanović, EULEX Special Prosecutor Cezari Mihalcuk "falsified statements from a letter of the Serbian MUP," writes a daily.

BELGRADE - Director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric called Thursday for an urgent revision of EULEX activities in Kosovo-Metohija and also for judicial authorities to investigate allegations made by Belgrade-based daily Politika, which had accused a prosecutor of that mission of falsifying evidence in the case against the leader of the Citizens' Initiat

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Kori Udovicki said that the European Commission has encouraged Serbia to conduct the public administration reform as planned, and to keep this task among its priorities.

BELGRADE - Serbian and Croatian ministers of state administration Kori Udovicki and Arsen Bauk agreed on Thursday that both countries face similar problems in that field, but said that Croatia, as an EU member state, is a step ahead of Serbia in terms of regulating the state administration.

NEW YORK - Serbia is aiming to reach an agreement on a loan with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by the end of the year to improve the country's image with potential investors, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said during his visit to London, New York news agency Bloomberg reported on Thursday.

LONDON - One of the main goals of the Serbian government is to reform the economy and redirect the workforce from the public to the private sector, Serbian Finance Minister Dusan Vujovic said during an investment conference in London, as reported by International Business Times.

BELGRADE - Turkey's Ambassador to Serbia Mehmet Kemal Bozay has hosted a reception to mark the Turkish national holiday, Republic Day, and said that Serbian-Turkish ties have deep roots and a promising, solid future.

The ties are developing in all areas and are beneficial to not only Serbia and Turkey, but the broader region as well, he said at late Wednesday's ceremony.

BELGRADE - Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic has rejected the proposal by the Bar Association of Serbia (AKS) for the EU Delegation to Serbia to mediate the dispute between lawyers, who are on strike, and the Ministry of Justice, adding that the Ministry's offer for fulfillment of the lawyers' requests is still on the table.