Aleksandar Vučić

PM addresses central commemorative gathering

BELGRADE -- Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said late on Tuesday that Serbia "learned the lesson and would continue to fight for a normal and dignified life in Europe."

Vucic offers condolences to Merkel and Rajoy

BELGRADE -- Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic expressed his condolences to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.

His message came following a plane crash in the French Alps that killed nationals of the two countries on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on the occasion of 16 years since the start of the NATO bombing of Serbia late on Tuesday that Serbia had learnt the lesson and would continue to fight for a normal and dignified life in Europe.

VIENNA - Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sebastian Kurz said on Tuesday that Serbia is an important partner for Austria.

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said Tuesday that the Department of High Tech Crime had begun an investigation into death threats made against Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic via social networking websites by the so-called Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.

Radicals protest, burn EU, U.S., NATO flags

BELGRADE -- Supporters of the Serb Radical Party (SRS) on Tuesday staged a protest in Belgrade when they burned flags of NATO, the EU, the United States, and Kosovo.

The protest was held in front of the General Staff building in Belgrade that was destroyed in the NATO bombing that started this day 16 years ago.

BELGRADE - A central commemorative ceremony marking the beginning of 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia will be held in front of the former General Staff building, downtown Belgrade, on Tuesday at 7:58 p.m., as the hour when the air strikes against the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia started 16 years ago.

VIENNA - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said in Vienna on Tuesday that he believes that Serbia can make a quicker recovery because fiscal consolidation measures are producing results.

Speaking to reporters at the Serbia in Vienna 2015 economic forum, held at the Austrian chamber of commerce, Vucic said that Serbia needs both foreign and domestic investments.

VIENNA - Serbia is very interesting for Austrian companies, Vice President of the Austrian Economic Chambers Richard Schenz said before the start of the business forum Serbia in Vienna 2015 on Tuesday.

He told Tanjug he was glad Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic was taking part in the forum together with a large business delegation.

VIENNA - President of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber Christoph Leitl stated on Tuesday that Serbia is already a part of the EU in the economic sense, and expressed the hope that the membership will soon be realised in the political sense as well.