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Gasic hands decrees on VBA, VOA director appointments
BELGRADE - Serbian Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic has handed the decrees of the President of the Republic of Serbia on appointments to the positions of director of the Military Security Agency (VBA) and of the Military Intelligence Agency (VOA) to Brigadier Generals Petar Cvetkovic and Slavoljub Dabic, respectively.
Serbia listed among Best in Travel 2015 Top 10 destinations
BELGRADE - The Lonely Planet travel guide has listed Serbia as one of its Best in Travel 2015 Top 10 destinations, which have been presented at a ceremony in Milan, the Tourist Organization of Serbia (TOS) said in a release on Thursday.
The TOS showcased Serbia's tourism offer to the reporters and tour operators, along with several other countries in the top 10.
EP passes resolution on Seselj
STRASBOURG - The European Parliament passed on Thursday a resolution on leader of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) Vojislav Seselj after a one-hour debate, calling on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to re-examine the existence of requirements for provisional release under new circumstances, and urging the Serbian authorities to distance themselves from his st
Meron: Too much unnecessary attention is paid to Seselj
SARAJEVO - President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Theodor Meron said that too much unnecessary attention is being paid to the public outbursts of ICTY indictee Vojislav Seselj.
I think that the media focus on Seselj too much, giving him the publicity he does not deserve, Meron told the reporters during his visit to Sarajevo.
Ipsos: SNS would win over 50 percent of votes
BELGRADE - The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) would win slightly over 50 percent of votes of the citizens who would go to polls (around 66 percent of the population) if the elections were to be held now, the November survey conducted by Ipsos agency show, as quoted by the Belgrade-based daily Blic.
Analyst: Region is overreacting to Šešelj
Analyst: Region is overreacting to Šešelj
BELGRADE -- Foreign policy analyst Boško Jakšić says Vojislav Šešelj "does not deserve a European parliament resolution, nor a declaration of the Croatian parliament."
He told B92 on Thursday that "the Šešelj effect" was "almost ephemeral" on Serbia's political scene - but that he "gained in strength in the region."