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Bulgaria's FM Kristian Vigenin Meets Serbia's Ivica Dacic
Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin met Serbian counterpart and Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Dacic during his visit to Belgrade on July 3.
The two agreed that political consultations between would be held this autumn between their institutions to discuss issues regarding bilateral relations, but also Serbia's integration into the EU.
Dacic, Vigenin: South Stream of vital importance
BELGRADE - The foreign ministers of Serbia and Bulgaria, Ivica Dacic and Kristian Vigenin respectively, said in Belgrade on Thursday that the construction of the South Stream gas pipeline is of vital importance for both countries, and Dacic underscored that this is primarily the issue of energy security and stability, and not relations with Russia.
Nikolić expects PM's Moscow trip to be "beneficial"
Nikolić expects PM's Moscow trip to be "beneficial"
BELGRADE -- President Tomislav Nikolić says he expected from a forthcoming visit by Serbia’s Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić to Moscow "to prove beneficial to Serbia."
He added that Serbia was "a missing link for a better cooperation between the East and West."
Prosecutor's Office demands 8 years of prison for Subotic
BELGRADE - The Prosecutor's Office for Organised Crime suggested to the Belgrade Special Court on Thursday that businessmen Stanko Subotic should be sentenced to eight years of imprisonment for organising cigarette smuggling actions in Serbia during the '90s, while the proposed sentence for his associates entails two to six years of imprisonment.
'Gazprom Subsidiary' in Construction of Bulgaria's South Stream
Centrgaz, a subsidiary of Gazprom, could step in the construction of the South Stream pipeline's Bulgarian stretch, according to a Russian daily.
Vedomosti's website reports that Centrgaz, which has not fallen under EU or US sanctions over the Ukraine crisis, has already won the tender for South Stream in Bulgaria's western neighbor Serbia.
"EU strategic objective, Russia advantage"
"EU strategic objective, Russia advantage"
BELGRADE -- The EU is "a strategic objective for Serbia - but that does not rule out cooperation with Russia - an advantage that Serbia intends to use."
This is what President Tomislav Nikolić told the visiting Bulgarian minister of foreign affairs, Kristian Vigenin, as they met in Belgrade on Thursday.