Military Medical Academy

BELGRADE - The duty of today's generations of health care workers in Serbia is to never forget the glorious deeds and feats of their predecessors and to learn from their experiences, the head of the Military Medical Academy, Marijan Novakovic, said opening a symposium titled The Serbian Military Medical Corps in World War I.

BELGRADE - Serbian Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic met with Tunisian Ambassador to Serbia Majid Hamlaoui on Wednesday to discuss the promotion of all forms of defense cooperation, including the strengthening of military-economic ties.

Gasic and Hamlaoui agreed that the defense cooperation established so far primarily involves the military-economic forms of cooperation.

BELGRADE - Belgrade police are intensively working on finding and identifying three attackers who beat up Davor Pasalic, deputy editor-in-chief at the Fonet news agency, the Serbian Interior Ministry stated on Friday.

Pasalic was attacked in Zoran Djindjic St. in New Belgrade in the early morning hours on July 3, close to the building in which he lives.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Defence Bratislav Gasic met on Friday with officers who will assume the duty of military envoys in eight countries in the next few months.

As of this year, Serbia will, for the first time, have military envoys in Brazil, Poland, Angola and the United Arab Emirates, while four officers will take over regular duties in China, Romania, Algeria and Croatia.

Obrenovac gets field hospital, more aid distribution centers

BELGRADE -- Defense Minister Bratislav Gašić has said that three more locations for distribution of humanitarian aid would be available to residents of Obrenovac.

BELGRADE - A field hospital, which is part of the Military Medical Academy, started working in a schoolyard in Obrenovac on Wednesday, the Ministry of Defense has announced.

This temporary healthcare facility will provide treatments for the citizens living in the flood-affected areas and members of the Serbian Armed Forces and Interior Ministry repairing the damage.

BELGRADE - Chief-of-staff of the Serbian Armed Forces Ljubisa Dikovic has presented a gold plaque of the Serbian Armed Forces to the Military Medical Academy (VMA) on its 170th anniversary.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic signed the decrees on decorations for the Military Medical Academy and 42 members of the Defence Ministry and the Armed Forces of the Republic of Serbia.

BELGRADE - The pillars of Serbian statehood, which include the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces, are the institutions the Serbian citizens traditionally trust the most, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has said in Belgrade.

BELGRADE - Serbia's outgoing Defense Minister Nebojsa Rodic and Chief of the General Staff of the Slovenian Armed Forces Major General Dobran Bozic agreed in Belgrade on Thursday that the long-standing successful cooperation between Serbia and Slovenia is a good example of development of friendly relations in the region.