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Refugee housing agreement signed
BELGRADE - Serbia's Minister without Portfolio in chareg of EU integration Jadranka Joksimovic and Council of Europe Development Bank official Stephan Sellen signed on Tuesday an donation agreement worth EUR 26.7 million that will help provide housing for 1,585 of the poorest refugee families.
Russia's deputy foreign minister visits Belgrade
Russia's deputy foreign minister visits Belgrade
BELGRADE -- Relations between Serbia and Russia are "on a high level," Serbian FM Ivica Dačić and visiting Russian Deputy FM Gennady Gatilov agreed on Monday.
Gatilov is on an official visit to Serbia.
81st Vuk's Assembly opens in Loznica
LOZNICA - The 81st Vuk's Assembly, the country's oldest cultural event dedicated to the reformer of the Serbian language and script Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic (1787-1864) opened on Monday at the Cultural Center in Loznica, western Serbia.
"More than 500 Serbian troops in peacekeeping missions"
"More than 500 Serbian troops in peacekeeping missions"
BELGRADE -- Defense Minister Bratislav Gašić says more than 500 members of Serbian Army (VS) will participate in 13 UN and EU-mandated peacekeeping missions this year.
Ministerial conference on cooperation in ecology,agriculture
STUTTGART - A ministerial conference on the implementation of Serbian-German environmental projects will be held in Stuttgart on Tuesday.
The Serbian delegation will be headed by Minister of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Snezana Bogosavljevic-Boskovic and State Secretary Stana Bozovic.
PM speaks to Russian media, reiterates "no sanctions"
PM speaks to Russian media, reiterates "no sanctions"
MOSCOW -- Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić has told Russia's Itar-Tass news agency that Serbia has not, and will not impose sanctions against Russia.
Bulgaria is Fifth Poorest Country in Europe – Serbian Statistics
Bulgaria is the fifth poorest country in Europe, according to a study of the Serbian Statistical Institute.
A total of 1.8 million people in Serbia live in poverty. The country ranks first among European countries with 24.6 percent of its population below the poverty line.
Victims’ families want Medacki Dzep crimes prosecuted
BELGRADE - Families of the Serbs killed by the Croatian armed forces during an offensive on the territory of Medacki Dzep near the town of Gospic in western Croatia in 1993 Monday called on the authorities and competent institutions in Croatia to immediately prosecute those responsible for those crimes.
Serbian-Russian relations at high level
BELGRADE - Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov stated Monday in Belgrade that Serbian-Russian relations are at a high level.
Dacic: Serbs should serve their sentence in Serbia
BELGRADE - Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic met Monday with the prosecutor of the newly established Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) Hassan Jallow, and underlined that more convicted Serbian citizens should serve their sentence in Serbia.
Dacic confers with Finnish ambassador
BELGRADE - Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic conferred on Monday with Finnish Ambassador to Serbia Pekka Orpana, Serbian Foreign Ministry said in a release.
Ambassador Orpana extended to Dacic the official invitation by Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs Erkki Tuomioja to visit Finland.
Sertic: Regional economic cooperation is imperative
BELGRADE - The governments of Serbia and Republika Srpska (RS) have to work together to improve the business environment, because that will facilitate economic recovery, Serbia's Minister of Economy Zeljko Sertic said on Monday.
Road, railway infrastructure to be reconstructed by October
BELGRADE - The reconstruction of the road and railway infrastructure damaged in the May floods will be complete by October 1, whereas landslides will be repaired by the end of the year, the Serbian Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure said in a statement on Monday.
"EU is moving target that we must follow"
"EU is moving target that we must follow"
BELGRADE -- As a country in membership negotiations with the EU, Serbia must align not only with its legal framework and practice, but also the Union's new developments.
This is what head of Serbia's EU accession negotiating team Tanja Miščević wrote in an op-ed published in the Belgrade-based daily Danas.
Package of measures should protect socially endangered
BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said during a meeting with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Resident Representative in Serbia Deheng Kim Monday that Serbia had to continue structural reforms and expressed the expectation of Serbia and the IMF signing an agreement.