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Equality Commissioner Brankica Jankovic visited Serbia's reception centre for migrants in the southern town of Presevo on Monday and said that refugees there had assured her that they were being not discriminated against in any way.

Two Bulgarian women - UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and European Commission Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva, are among the possible nominees for succeeding Ban Ki-moon as the next UN Secretary-General.

This is suggested by a recent article of The New York Times (NYT) entitled "After 70 Years of Men, Some Say It Is 'High Time' a Woman Led the UN".

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic accepted on Sunday an invitation from U.S. President Barack Obama to attend a summit in September.

According to the Serbian government website, the leadership summit will be held on September 29 at the UN headquarters in New York and "deal with the fight against ISIS and violent extremism."

Implementation of Security Council Resolution 1244 "will remain at the core of the UN policy toward Kosovo."

This is what Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic and United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon agreed on Saturday, according to Tanjug.

More than 7,000 refugees arrived in Serbia in the night between Saturday and Sunday after passing through Macedonia, according to UN's refugee agency UNHCR.

The International Federation of Red Cross expects "a dramatic increase" in their number in coming days.

The new camp was established in the village of Miratovac, near the southern Serbian town of Presevo, where a collective reception centre for migrants was opened in the reconstructed building of a tobacco processing company on July 8.

The EU has only provided symbolic assistance to Macedonia as the country is dealing with a surging migrant influx, Macedonian FM Nikola Poposki has said.

Commenting on the migrant issue that has assertively hit the country over the past days, he urged the EU to understand that a joint response to the crisis is needed in Europe.

The details of the ??ncirlik agreement? signed between Turkey and the United States are taking shape by the day.

The United Nations refugee agency expressed concern on Friday over the increasingly precarious situation at the border between Greece and Macedonia, where Macedonian police used force earlier to prevent migrants trying to cross.

The Arab League?s assistant secretary-general for Palestinian affairs, Mohamed Sobeih, has branded Israel as an ?abnormal? state, saying the pan-Arab body was seeking to issue a resolution from the U.N. Security Council to end the decades-long Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.