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Companies that have received licenses to explore for oil and gas in the Croatian Adriatic will have to wait months before signing their contracts and starting exploration activities.

Citizens asked "not to dispose of explosives in dumpsters"

BELGRADE -- The Serbian Interior Ministry (MUP) on Tuesday appealed on citizens "in possession of bombs and other mine-explosive devices" not to throw them into dumpsters.

Instead, citizens have been informed, they should call the police who will quickly respond and take over the explosives.

VALJEVO - The reconstruction of the section of the railway towards Bar in Montenegro through Serbia will begin by the end of the year and it will be funded from the Russian loan worth USD 200 million, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic announced on Tuesday.

Djukanovic on Monday presented the five new ministers to the leaderhip of his ruling Democratic Party of Socialists, DPS after months of speculation about changes within the government.
 
It is expected that parliament will vote on the new Education, Culture, Health, Justice and Labour ministers at its session scheduled for Tuesday.

Miodrag Lekic, leader of the main opposition force in Montenegro, Democratic Front, has announced that he is stepping down.

Lekic had been considered the only political figure with enough authority and popular support to unite the various opposition parties in Montenegro that have little in common except a desire to defeat the country's long-time leader, Milo Djukanovic.

The Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) project expects BP to resolve outstanding issues soon to become a stakeholder in the multi-billion dollar project that aims to reduce Europe's reliance on Russian gas, a TANAP official said on late March 11.