Belgrade City Council

Thorvald Stoltenberg to be made honorary citizen of Belgrade

BELGRADE - The Belgrade City Council adopted and forwarded to the City Assembly the proposal to declare prominent Norwegian politician Thorvald Stoltenberg an honorary citizen of the Serbian capital.

The initiative was launched by President of the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence Sonja Licht, the city's press service said in a release on Thursday.

LGBT pride parade scheduled for September 28

BELGRADE - The Belgrade LGBT pride parade will be held on Sunday, September 28.

The pride march will be followed by a party outside the Belgrade City Council building, the Belgrade-based daily Politika reports.

This year's parade was initially slated for May 31, but the plan was scrapped in the wake of the massive floods that hit Serbia earlier that month, the paper reports.