Serbian Interior Ministry

BELGRADE - Serbia's Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said during a meeting he had with Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia Peter Burkhard on Wednesday that the Serbian Interior Ministry would be actively engaged in the fight against terrorism.

BELGRADE - Belgrade's water polo club Partizan will welcome Turkish Galatasaray on Saturday and fans will be allowed to attend the postponed match of the first round of Group B of the Championship League.

PM and interior minister visit on duty firefighters

BELGRADE -- Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic visited one hour after midnight on Thursday the Fire Brigade in Belgrade.

Accompanied by Police Director Milorad Veljovic, they wished firefighters a happy new year, and saw that the night was passing peacefully.

Belgrade resident arrested in Pristina in 30-day custody

PRIŠTINA, BELGRADE -- Serbian citizen named as Slobodan Gavric, who was arrested in Pristina with 13 kg of explosives in his possession, was placed in 30-day custody on Saturday.

He is held "on suspicion of organising terrorist activities and bringing explosives into Kosovo," Tanjug reported.

VIENNA - Serbia respects freedom of the media and freedom of expression and the Serbian government condemns any attempt to violate these freedoms, Serbian Minister of Culture and Information Ivan Tasovac stated in the talks with OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - The European Commission (EC) wants to see Serbia among the first countries to become new members of the European Union (EU), European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopulos has said.

BELGRADE - An EU-Western Balkans interior ministers' forum on the battle against international terrorism, crime and corruption will be held in Belgrade on Friday.

The meeting is organised by the Serbian interior and justice ministries, with support from Italy, as the presiding country of the EU, and the European Commission.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of the Interior Nebojsa Stefanovic on the second day of his visit to Great Britain visited the National Crime Agency (NCA) and signed a memorandum of cooperation with NCA Director General Keith Bristow on the fight against organized crime, illegal migration and human trafficking.

BELGRADE - The police in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) and Serbia Friday morning arrested 15 persons suspected of kidnapping 20 people from a Belgrade-Bar train and killing them on the banks of the Drina River in Visegrad in eastern BiH on February 27, 1993.

Arrests for 1993 Strpci station train kidnappings

BELGRADE, SARAJEVO -- Five persons have been arrested in Serbia and ten in Bosnia-Herzegovina on suspicion that they took part in the 1993 kidnapping of train passengers.

The train was traveling on the Belgrade-Bar line when 20 passengers were taken out and later killed.