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Japanese donation for 3 schools and 2 healthcare centres
BELGRADE - The Japanese government will donate equipment to three schools and two healthcare centres in Serbia to the total value of over EUR 300,000 and the contracts on the donation were signed by Japanese Ambassador in Serbia Masafumi Kuroki and the directors of the institutions on Friday.
Japan donates to schools and healthcare centers
Japan donates to schools and healthcare centers
BELGRADE -- The Japanese government will donate equipment to three schools and two healthcare centers in Serbia to the total value of over EUR 300,000.
The contracts on the donation were signed by Japanese Ambassador Masafumi Kuroki and directors of these institutions on Friday.
Unite for Freedom, BIRN Media Debate Hears
BIRN Serbia and Human Right House organised the first in a series of debates on media freedom on Thursday in Belgrade's Media Centre.
Faculty of Economics students win ASIC contest
BELGRADE - A team of students enrolled on courses at the Tourism and Hotel Management Department of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics won the second Adria Student Innovation Contest (ASIC), an annual international competition held in Zagreb, the Faculty of Economics has said in a release.
New register of media to be introduced Friday
BELGRADE - The Business Registers Agency (APR) will introduce an up-to-date register of media on Friday.
The APR will feed in the data of the previous register into the new database, and the media, which have not registered with the previous record, will have a legal obligation to register their outlets within six months.
Customs offices in computerised transit system
BELGRADE - All customs offices in Serbia have been integrated in a New Computerised Transit System (NCTS) and Serbia should join the system of joint EU transit as of October this year, the Customs Administration authorities released.
Drunk driver with 5.19 BAC arrested in eastern town
Drunk driver with 5.19 BAC arrested in eastern town
POZAREVAC -- The traffic police in the town of Pozarevac in eastern Serbia on Thursday arrested a 42-year-old man for driving while extremely intoxicated.
The blood alcohol content (BAC) of the driver, S.B., was 5.19 milligrams per milliliter at the time of the arrest.
The legal limit in Serbia is 0.3 mg/ml.
Thorvald Stoltenberg to be made honorary citizen of Belgrade
BELGRADE - The Belgrade City Council adopted and forwarded to the City Assembly the proposal to declare prominent Norwegian politician Thorvald Stoltenberg an honorary citizen of the Serbian capital.
The initiative was launched by President of the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence Sonja Licht, the city's press service said in a release on Thursday.
"Agreement abolishes Serbian courts" - Kosovo PM
"Agreement abolishes Serbian courts" - Kosovo PM
PRISTINA -- Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa has informed deputies of the assembly in Pristina about the agreement on justice reached in Brussels earlier this week.
Gojkovic to confer with Macedonian president
SKOPJE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic will wrap up her two-day visit to Skopje by meeting with Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov on Friday.
On Thursday, Gojkovic talked with Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, Parliament Speaker Trajko Veljanoski, and met with members of the parliamentary group of friendship between Serbia and Macedonia.
"Migration from Kosovo is organized"
"Migration from Kosovo is organized"
BELGRADE -- Faculty for Security professor Zoran Dragisic has said that mass migration from Kosovo and Metohija to the EU is "an organized act of crime groups."
He also pointed out that the recent phenomenon "does not represent a major security threat to Serbia."
Lavrov sends telegram of condolences to Serbian counterpart
Lavrov sends telegram of condolences to Serbian counterpart
BELGRADE -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has sent a telegram of condolences to Serbian counterpart Ivica Dacic over the death of six Serbian workers in Russia.
Lavrov sends telegram of condolences to Dacic
BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov sent on Thursday a telegram of condolences to Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic over the tragic death of six Serbian citizens in Russia.
German MPS: First chapter on Kosovo
BELGRADE - The continuation of the Belgrade-Pristina talks bears major importance for Serbia's European integration and Germany maintains the stand that the talks with Serbia should begin by opening the chapter on Kosovo, German MPs said in the Serbian parliament on Thursday.
Dacic to German MPs: More issues are at hand
BELGRADE - Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic met with a delegation of the German Bundestag Thursday, letting them know about the essence of a deal on judiciary issues reached in the latest round of Belgrade-Pristina talks in Brussels and stressing that many other important issues were still to be dealt with.