Serbian government

BELGRADE – Serbian MPs met on Saturday to continue a debate on the bill on ministries and draft amendments to the Law on Government.

The MPs put forward 60 amendments to the bill on ministries and two amendments to the draft amendments to the Law on Government.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Two EULEX vehicles were attacked on the road to the Brnjak crossing in Zubin Potok municipality, northern Kosovo, but nobody was injured in the incident, EULEX Spokesperson Irina Gudeljevic told Tanjug on Saturday.

BELGRADE - Belgrade's liaison officer in Pristina Dejan Pavicevic stated on Friday that over the past year, the Serbian government has managed to implement a majority of agreements reached on grounds of the Brussels agreement and create a positive climate for the normalisation of relations.

NOVI SAD - Draft media laws will soon be presented to the new Serbian government and forwarded to the parliament in the shortest possible time, State Secretary at the Ministry of Culture and Information Gordana Predic said Friday.

Vučić, Swiss president on bilateral ties, OSCE chairmanship

BELGRADE -- Aleksandar Vučić met on Thursday in Belgrade with Swiss Confederation President and Chairman of the OSCE Didier Burkhalter.

BELGRADE - Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and Didier Burkhalter, president of the Swiss Confederation, foreign minister and chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), concluded on Thursday that, in the last three years, significant progress has been made in bilateral cooperation.

BELGRADE - Setting up working bodies and standing delegations to international parliamentary institutions marked the end of the constitution of the Serbian National Assembly on Thursday, and a new session is about to start to discuss amendments to the laws on government and ministries, whose passage is a prerequisite for forming a new government.

LUCANI - A commission tasked with assessing damage to agricultural crops has submitted to the Serbian government a preliminary report estimating the damage caused by floods in the Lucani municipality to be RSD 46 million.

BELGRADE - The planned construction of a Faculty of Economics building in Bujanovac, southern Serbia, will make the town a university town and create conditions for economic development and political stability in the area, the signatories of an agreement to construct the facility have said.

Bujanovac to become "university town"

BELGRADE -- The planned construction of a Faculty of Economics building in Bujanovac, southern Serbia, will make the town "a university town."

It will also "create conditions for economic development and political stability in the area," the signatories of an agreement to construct the facility have said.