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Serbian minister told to "get medical treatment"

BELGRADE -- Croatian Minister for Defenders Predrag Matic has advised Serbian Labor Minister Aleksandar Vulin "to go get medical treatment."

Matic was commenting on a statement made by Vulin earlier on Wednesday, and explained that his recommendation applied "both to Vojislav Seselj and Vulin."

Vucic: Serbia will not recall ambassador from Croatia

BRATISLAVA - Serbia will not recall its ambassador from Croatia nor send any negative signal to Croatia, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said late Wednesday.

"I think that Serbia and Croatia need to cooperate far better," Vucic told Radio-Television of Serbia in Bratislava.

Sun Continues to Shine on Croatian Tourism

Figures published by the Croatian national bank, HNB, show Croatia earned a healthy 7.4 billion euro from tourism in 2014, which was 2.8 per cent better than the figures for 2013.

PM: Serbia will not recall ambassador from Croatia

BRATISLAVA -- Serbia will not recall its ambassador from Croatia nor send any negative signal to Croatia, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said late on Wednesday.

"I think that Serbia and Croatia need to cooperate far better," Vucic told Radio-Television of Serbia in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Croatia withdraws ambassador for consultations

ZAGREB -- The Croatian Foreign Ministry has presented Charge d'Affaires of the Serbian embassy in Croatia Bosa Prodanovic with a protest letter.

It concerns Serb Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj's statements and the incident on Wednesday when he burned the Croatian flag in Belgrade.

Croatia lodges protest over Seselj's actions

ZAGREB - The Croatian Foreign Ministry has presented Charge d'Affaires of the Serbian embassy in Croatia Bosa Prodanovic with a protest letter concerning Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj's statements and the incident on Wednesday when he burned the Croatian flag in Belgrade.

Seselj: I can hardly wait for trial to start

BELGRADE - Serbian Radical Party (SRS) leader Vojislav Seselj commented on the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade launching criminal proceedings against him for burning the Croatian flag Wednesday saying he could hardly wait for the process to begin.

Criminal charges filed against Seselj for flag burning

BELGRADE - The Office of the Belgrade Public Prosecutor on Wednesday filed criminal charges against Serbian Radical Party (SRS) leader Vojislav Seselj for burning the Croatian flag.

Remains of 14 Serb victims in Croatia identified

BELGRADE - The remains of 14 victims of Serb nationality, killed during the armed conflicts in the territory of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) in Croatia, were identified at the Institute of Forensic Medicine and Criminology of the School of Medicine in Zagreb, in the presence of family members.

Linta: Hypocritical statements by Croatian prime minister

BELGRADE - Miodrag Linta, president of the Coalition of Refugee Associations, said on Wednesday that Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic has issued hypocritical and reckless statements about the ICTY Trial Chamber's decision that Serbian Radical Party (SRS) leader Vojislav Seselj must return to the court's cellblock in The Hague.

Croatian Church Satire Draws Interest in France

Croatia may be a very Catholic country by secular European standards, but that has not stopped a satirical movie about the Church called "Svecenikova djeca" ("Priest's Children"), from being a hit with movie audiences.

Now it is going to shown to French audiences, too, supported by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

More tourists in Serbia in first two months of 2014

BELGRADE -- In the first two months of the year, 12 percent more tourists visited Serbia than in the same period in the year before.

This data came from the National Tourism Organization of Serbia (TOS).