Ministry of Defense

Bulgaria's Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov said on Friday funding for the update of military capabilities has been set aside in the budget draft for next year.

This includes installments on the prospective acquisition of new multirole aircraft for the Bulgarian Air Force, but also frigates for the navy.

A local court in Turkey's southeastern province of Diyarbak?r has fined the Ministry of Defense a total of 548,000 Turkish Liras for pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages to a victim, who died in custody allegedly due to torture.

Four people were injured in a fire that broke out at around 09:00 CET on Tuesday in the Milan Blagojevic defense industry factory in Lucani.

The Ministry of Defense made the announcement and added that three of them had to be transported to Belgrade's military clinic VMA by helicopter due to the severity of their injuries, the daily Blic is reporting.

The Ministry of Defense says it is working "to improve and further develop best possible relationships with all states and international organizations."

A doctor from Serbia's military clinic VMA has died from a grave form of malaria she contracted as a member of a UN mission in Central African Republic.

Olivera Jovanovic was admitted to the Clinic for Infective and Tropical Diseases on July 6 in a serious conditions and exhibiting signs of multiple organ failure, the Ministry of Defense announced on Tuesday.

Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras managed to pass through a third austerity memorandum himself, one that he doesn’t believe in. In the process, he lost his coalition government’s majority with a quarter of SYRIZA MPs dissenting and the rest appearing to vote under duress.

Chinese tech company Huawei mulls opening an information technology (IT) center in Serbia.

The plans of the Chinese telecommunications company were announced on Monday after a meeting of Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic with Wan Zheng, Vice-President of Huawei, according to Serbia's Beta news agency.

The Greek authorities have prepared and submitted to the negotiation table a well documented proposal on the medium-term fiscal path, the primary balance targets and the required fiscal measures to achieve them.

Army chief visits Serbian peacekeepers in Cyprus

Chief-of-Staff of the Serbian Army (VS) Gen. Ljubisa Dikovic has visited the soldiers deployed as part of the UN peacekeeping mission in Cyprus.

During his trip on Monday, Dikovic said that the Serbian army members were "performing all tasks within this UN multinational operation in a highly professional way."

"MFA did not recommend sending veterans to Moscow"

BELGRADE -- Ivica Dacic has denied his ministry had sent a recommendation to the president regarding the participation of Serbian soldiers in the Moscow Victory Day parade.

Reportedly, this recommendation said that Serbia should send Second World War veterans instead of members of the Serbian Army (VS) Guard.