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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"

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.

Vatican Library, National Library sign cooperation protocol

BELGRADE - The current archivist and librarian of the Vatican Apostolic Library, Archbishop Jean-Louis Brugues, signed Monday at the National Library of Serbia (NBS) a protocol on cooperation between the two institutions, set to facilitate the exchange of publications, knowledge and experts in the field of gathering, preserving, processing and protecting the library material.

Serbian teams win three prizes at Microsoft competition

BELGRADE - Serbian teams have won three prizes at the international Bubble Cup, one of Serbia's most prestigious competitions for IT experts.

This year's final, held on September 5-7, featured 24 teams - 10 from Serbia and the rest from Poland, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Great Britain and Croatia.

Tasovac: Museums must be included in tourism market

ZLATIBOR - Well-positioned cultural institutions and enhancement of cultural tourism can be an important segment of Serbia's economic development, Serbian Minister of Culture and Information Ivan Tasovac told a regional conference of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) on Mt. Zlatibor, a tourism hub and climatic resort in western Serbia.

This was announced on Monday by the government's office for media relations.