Aleksandar Vučić

PM talks about helicopter crash, EU, tycoons

BELGRADE -- Aleksandar Vucic says that the preliminary results of an investigation into the helicopter crash that killed seven people "do not rule out a malfunction."

Serbia mounts diplomacy drive

Boosting bilateral relations with Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia is a priority for Serbia.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic (left) meets with his Macedonian counterpart Nikola Gruevski (right) on February 16th ahead of a joint summit in Skopje. [AFP]

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic stated on Tuesday that the talks on government reshuffle will continue, adding that all four options are still on the table.

Milivoje Mihajlovic, the head of the Serbian government's press office, on Monday said a reshuffle was expected in April or soon after.

Protesting teachers pour water on education minister

BELGRADE -- Education employees have gathered in front of the Education Ministry in protest over their "material position, and the state of the education sector."

Their representatives were on Tuesday holding a meeting with Education Minister Srdjan Verbic that ended with no agreement.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said Serbia's government would decide who won an important bid to manage a troubled steel mill on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - The policy of Serbia and Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) has to be the protection of national interests, development of the economy, and not violence, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday on the occasion of marking 11 years since the pogrom that ethnic Albanians carried out against Serbs in the province.

PM "takes responsibility - but doesn't know what for"

OBRENOVAC -- Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic says the Serbian Army (VS) is conducting "a professional investigation" into the crash of one of its helicopters last week.

The results will be published "soon," Vucic told reporters in Obrenovac on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - Milivoje Mihajlovic, head of the government's press office, stated on Tuesday that the government reshuffle is expected in April or later.

BELGRADE, BANJA LUKA - Serbia's Minister of Youth and Sports Vanja Udovicic has met with Republika Srpska's (RS) Minister of Family, Youth and Sport Jasmina Davidovic in Banja Luka, and called RS to actively engage in the initiative for setting up a Western Balkan youth union.