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Serbia registers 3.6 percent real GDP drop in Q3

BELGRADE -- Serbia registered a 3.6 percent real GDP drop in the third quarter of 2014 relative to the same period last year.

At the same time, a 1.3-percent drop in the second quarter was reported in the Statistical Office's revised figures.

BECEJ - KWS from Germany opened in Becej on Friday a plant for corn seed processing that cost EUR 30 million, and Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic stated that it marked the beginning of a great recovery for that municipality, which had been one of the most important centres of agricultural industry in the former Yugoslavia.

BELGRADE - Officials of the Serbian Chamber of Public Notaries on a visit to Berlin received significant support from their German colleagues for the setting up of a modern and efficient public notary system.

BELGRADE - The 9th International Festival of Salsa and other Caribbean dances under the title Salsa Motion Weekend will be held in Belgrade from December 5 to 7 and it will gather around 1,000 dancers from Serbia and the world.

BELGRADE - The Serbian family "slava" has been included on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and is the first Serbian cultural asset to make it to the list, the Serbian Ministry of Culture and Information said in a statement.

BELGRADE - Serbia's President Tomislav Nikolic and Slovenia's Outgoing Ambassador Franc But have noted on Friday that many positive changes have happened in Serbia in the last two years, and that the two countries maintain excellent bilateral relations.

SANTIAGO DE CHILE - Chile and Serbia are traditional friends and Serbia will devote a lot of its attention to fostering and rebiuilding old friendships, Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minsiter Ivica Dacic said after a meeting with Chile's Foreign Affairs Minister Heraldo Munoz Valenzuela.