Serbia

Serbia "aims to carry out reforms by 2018"

BELGRADE -- Parliament Speaker Maja Gojković has spoken with Greek counterpart Vangelis Meimarakis about parliamentary cooperation, EU integration and economic reforms.

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic spoke in Belgrade Thursday with her counterpart from Greece Vangelis Meimarakis about parliamentary cooperation, European integration and economic reforms.

BELGRADE - The National Assembly of Serbia will be an equal participant in the process of EU accession talks, Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic said Thursday.

SUBOTICA - Serbia has to create products that will find their place on shop shelves around Europe instead of producing raw materials for foreign food industries, participants of the two-day agricultural forum entitled Food for Europe stated.

BELGRADE - Stefan Nemanja, the founder of the Nemanjic dynasty, represents a beacon for new generations that defines the direction for preserving the Serbian state, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said at an international conference marking a great anniversary - 900 years since the birth of the creator of a strong medieval Serbian state.

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic met with Swedish Ambassador to Serbia Christer Asp on Thursday to discuss joint projects between Serbia and Sweden and Sweden's support for Serbia's European integration process in the field of internal affairs.

"Visit to be planned in coordination with Belgrade"

BELGRADE -- Albania's Foreign Minister Ditmir Bushati said on Thursday that the program of Edi Rama's visit would be drawn up in coordination with the Serbian authorities.

This will be done "with mutual respect, trust and by taking advantage of the best practices out there," he said.

BELGRADE - Albania's Foreign Minister Ditmir Bushati said on Thursday that the programme of Prime Minister Edi Rama's visit to Serbia would be drawn up in coordination with the Serbian authorities, with mutual respect, trust and by taking advantage of the best practices out there.

NOVI SAD - Six Novi Sad minors aged 17 were interrogated in the local police station on suspicion that they broke the window shop by throwing stones at the Telep cake shop in Novi Sad, northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, the Novi Sad Police Department released on Thursday.

IOC grants "provisional recognition to Kosovo Committee"

MONTREUX, BELGRADE -- The Executive Board (EB) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) granted provisional recognition to the Kosovo Olympic Committee on Wednesday.