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Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic on Friday rejected claims that he participated in a war crime in Croatia in 1991, after a Croatian newspaper reported that a trial witness testified that Vucic threatened him with death.

Vucic told media in Belgrade that he was in Croatia several times in the 1970s and 1980s as a child and a teenager, but not in 1991.

Voting for councilors in the Assembly of the Municipality of Negotin ended at 8 p.m.
After counting the ballots and filling in the minutes, the polling boards will hand over all the voting material to the Election Commission of the Municipality of Negotin.

"It was always important for the state to have the support of the Serbian Orthodox Church for its policy, whether domestic or international," he said. "The pressure is not bigger now," Aleksic said, but Vucic's constant presence in the media makes his role appear "most important".

"There is no respect for slaves. And just because we all know that the slave system is not fair, that doesn't mean that it will be overthrown by the slave owners. The system suits them."

'Enemies of the state'

The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals said on Tuesday that it will return the proceedings against ultranationalist politicians Petar Jojic and Vjerica Radeta to The Hague from Belgrade because witnesses were unwilling to reveal information to the Serbian authorities out of fear for their lives and safety.

A Belgrade-based NGO staged a protest in defence of an MP who called for the removal of Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj from Serbia's parliament because of his recent war crimes conviction.

Lawyers and NGOs urged the Serbian parliament to call a halt to Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj’s term as an MP because he was convicted of wartime crimes by the UN court in The Hague.

Interior Ministry of Ukraine reported the explosion of a car in Kiev, as a result of which two people were injured. Later, it turned out that the wounded were five. Spokesperson of the Radical Party Anna Sennik, told the 112 channel Ukraine that the parliamentarian Igor Mosychuk and his bodyguard were injured in the car blast. The two were hospitalized, according to BGNews.

BELGRADE - If he runs, Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) leader Aleksandar Vucic would win the upcoming presidential elections in the first round with 55.2 percent of the votes, with all other candidates far behind in the latest survey conducted by the Faktor Plus agency.

BELGRADE - The Serbian parliament has elected six of seven deputy speakers as Jasmina Nikolic, put forward by the Enough is Enough movement, received no support from MPs.