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Dacic to visit Ethiopia January 26-27
BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Dacic, who is also foreign minister, will be paying a visit to Ethiopia on Monday and Tuesday, January 26 and 27, to take part in the 26th session of the Executive Council of the African Union.
Serbian business forum to start in UAE Sunday
BELGRADE - Serbia's businessmen, owners of small and medium-sized enterprises, will travel to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday to take part in a Serbian business investment forum during which they will have the opportunity to make connections with business partners and learn about the potential of this rich market.
Gentiloni: Serbia, Albania EU membership important
ROME - Serbia's and Albania's EU membership is of strategic importance for the stabilization and security of the entire Western Balkans, Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni has said after meeting with Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic and Albanian Foreign Minister Ditmir Bushati in Rome.
El Dhaheri: Serbia opens doors wide for many UAE investments
NOVI SAD - The University of Novi Sad has presented Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to Serbia Juma Rashid Saif Zayed Al Dhaheri with a Captain Misa Anastasijevic award, for his contribution to promoting friendly relations and strengthening economic cooperation between Serbia and the UAE.
Tennis-Djokovic makes his way into fourth round in Melbourne
MELBOURNE - World number one Novak Djokovic is through to the fourth round of the 2015 Australian Open, after beating Spain's Fernando Verdasco 7-6 (10-8), 6-3, 6-4 in the third round on Saturday.
Djokovic safely overcame a nervous start to set up a fourth round clash with Luxembourg's Gilles Muller, who upset John Isner of the United States in straight sets.
Dacic in Rome on stabilization of relations with Albania
BELGRADE - A trilateral meeting of the foreign ministers of Serbia, Albania and Italy, on Belgrade-Tirana relations and regional cooperation, was held in Rome on Friday.
The meeting was organized at the initiative of Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, and the participants included the foreign ministers of Serbia and Albania Ivica Dacic and Ditmir Bushati.
73rd anniversary of Novi Sad raid
NOVI SAD - The 73rd anniversary of the Novi Sad raid, when Hungarian fascists killed more than 1,300 Serbs, Jews and Roma in only 3 days in January 1942, was marked in Novi Sad on Friday.
Serbia's Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic and Autonomous Province of Vojvodina Parliament Speaker Istvan Pastor laid wreaths at the memorial called Family and dedicated to the victims of the raid.
"Policy of military neutrality, cooperation to continue"
"Policy of military neutrality, cooperation to continue"
BELGRADE -- Serbia will continue to pursue the policy of military neutrality and it will cooperate with all partners in the East and the West, Bratislav Gasic has said.
The defense minister made the statement during his meeting in Belgrade on Friday with Russian Ambassador to Serbia Aleksandr Chepurin.
Kosovo Miners Suspend Strike at Trepca
Striking Trepca miners on Friday announced that they were suspending further strike action for a month, to give the government time to decide the future of the complex.
The temporary suspension of the strike was decided following negotiations between the miners and the manager of Trepca, Ahmet Tmava.
Pitic: No Swiss franc rate fix
BELGRADE - There will be no Swiss franc rate fix because such a solution would jeopardize the equal treatment of other clients in Serbia and endanger the basic postulates of the banking sector, Goran Pitic, head of the Managing Board of the Association of Serbian Banks, said on Friday.
Ivica Da?i?: Kolinda, you need to choose your words
Ivica Da?i?: Kolinda, you need to choose your words
Minister of Foreign affairs Ivica Da?i? stated that newly elected president of Croatia Kolinda Grabar Kitarovi? should "choose her words and moves carefully."
Serbian Minister commented Kitarovi?'s innapropriate statements about Serbia and Vojvodina, saying that she is the president now, and not opposition anymore.
Gasic:Policy of military neutrality, cooperation to continue
BELGRADE - Serbia will continue to pursue the policy of military neutrality and it will cooperate with all partners in the East and the West, Serbian Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic said during a meeting with the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Serbia, Alexander Chepurin, on Friday.
Vucic "accepts all key World Bank proposals"
Vucic "accepts all key World Bank proposals"
BELGRADE -- Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic accepted all key proposals of the World Bank (WB) during the talks with WB Regional Director for SE Europe Ellen Goldstein.
He said that Serbia "bravely continue its reform path regardless of the political price."
Linta condemns Tomasic's statement on minorities
BELGRADE - President of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia Miodrag Linta most fiercely condemned on Friday the pro-ustasha statement of Croatian MP in the European Parliament Ruza Tomasic who said that the status of national minorities in Croatia should be called off and that all members of national minorities are 'political Croats.'
Honey exports drop by over 50 percent
KRAGUJEVAC - Serbian beekeepers exported 1,500 tons of honey last year, which is over 50 percent less than in 2013, when honey exports totalled 3,370 tons, the deputy president of the Association of Serbian Beekeepers, Milutin Petrovic, has told Tanjug.