Security Information Agency

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy PM and Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said on Tuesday a decision on a potential lifting of a red terrorism alert declared after Saturday's attack on a Serbian gendarme outside the Israeli embassy in Belgrade was due at the end of this week.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government decided on Thursday to appoint Vladimir Orlic director of the Security Information Agency (BIA).

Orlic's appointment was approved by the National Security Council on Wednesday at a session chaired by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

BELGRADE - At a session chaired by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, the National Security Council on Wednesday approved the appointment of Vladimir Orlic as new Security Information Agency (BIA) director.

The decision was made in line with the Law on the Foundations of Regulation of the Security Services of the Republic of Serbia.

BELGRADE - Speaking about pressure on Serbia and Republika Srpska, former Security Information Agency chief Aleksandar Vulin said on Wednesday Western powers planned to pass a genocide resolution against Serbia and the Serbs in the UN General Assembly.

BELGRADE - The signature on the Brussels Agreement is binding to Serbia, while the unsigned so-called Ohrid Agreement is not in the least so, former Security Information Agency director and Movement of Socialists founder Aleksandar Vulin said on Monday.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday evening more than 35 rioters had been arrested after an attempt to take over Serbian state institutions by force.

Vucic was speaking to Pink TV after a National Security Council session called to address the riots.

BELGRADE- Former Interior Ministry official Tomislav Radovanovic has been named acting director of the Security Information Agency, sources in Serbia's security agencies have told Tanjug.

Radovanovic, who has previously served as head of the Criminal Police Directorate's Special Investigation Methods Service, joined the Security Information Agency in early 2023.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday evening there were three candidates for the new Security Information Agency director and announced that the agency's next chief would be named after the upcoming parliamentary elections.

BELGRADE - In a reaction to Security Information Agency chief Aleksandar Vulin's resignation, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday evening it was true there had been pressure from the first day since Vulin's appointment to the post, and thanked him for his contribution to the preservation of national security.

BELGRADE - Security Information Agency (BIA) Director Aleksandar Vulin announced on Friday he had tendered his irrevocable resignation from the post because the US and the EU wanted his "head as a precondition for not imposing sanctions on Serbia."