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"Important that Serbs take part in government"

BELGRADE -- An agreement has been reached in a meeting with PM Aleksandar Vučić that all those elected on the Serb list in Kosovo "take a united political front."

BELGRADE - Marko Djuric, director of the Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), said on Tuesday that, in a meeting with Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, an agreement has been reached that all MPs of the Serb List in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) take a united political front, underlining that it is important that the Serbs take on a part of the responsibility for running the institutions and take part in th

PM, U.S. ambassador open factory in northern Serbia

SREMSKA MITROVICA -- Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić and U.S. Ambassador to Serbia Michael Kirby opened in Sremska Mitrovica, in the province of Vojvodina, northwestern Serbia.

SREMSKA MITROVICA - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and U.S. Ambassador to Serbia Michael Kirby opened in Sremska Mitrovica, northwestern Serbia, on Thursday a plant of the U.S. manufacturer of automotive systems and components Cooper Standard, which will employ about 800 workers by mid-2016.

Iraqi police and army forces abandoned their posts in the city of Mosul after militants overran the provincial government headquarters and other key buildings, report ABC News.

The information was confirmed by provincial officials and residents. 

Opposition Democratic Party has new leader

BELGRADE -- Bojan Pajtić has been elected the new president of the Democratic Party (DS), replacing its former leader Dragan Đilas, his sole rival in the party election.

A total of 1,461 delegates backed Pajtić at the party's electoral assembly meeting on Saturday, while 1,277 voted for Đilas, former Belgrade mayor.

BELGRADE - The Law on Attorney’s Office, adopted by the Serbian parliament on Friday, introduces a number of new provisions and provides for functional autonomy of this executive body to launch a process to protect the state’s interests on its own.

New statute "won't diminish Vojvodina's autonomy"

BELGRADE -- Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojković has said that the new draft of the Statute of Vojvodina does not diminish the province's autonomy.

This official from the ranks of the ruling Progressives (SNS) added that the draft should be presented to MPs on Friday.

Top DS official in Vojvodina to run for party leader

BELGRADE -- DS leader Dragan Đilas has told the daily Blic that Bojan Pajtić told him personally he would be a candidate for president of the Democratic Party (DS).

Leader of Democrats, his deputy deny friction

BELGRADE -- Democratic Party leader Dragan Đilas and his deputy Bojan Pajtić have issued a joint statement denying media reports that they were in conflict.