Alexander Lukashenko

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic are maintaining constant communication and there are no disagreements between them, presidential foreign policy adviser Ivan Mrkic has said.

BELGRADE - Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko continued his visit to Serbia by meeting with the country’s president, Tomislav Nikolic.

Lukashenko was welcomed in front of the Palace of Serbia with full state honors.

After a closed-door meeting, the presidents will be joined by their countries’ delegations for further talks.

BELGRADE - Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko laid a wreath at the Monument to the Unknown Hero in Avala near Belgrade late on Wednesday.

Accompanied by the intonation of the national anthems of Belarus and Serbia, Lukashenko honoured the Serb soldiers who did not hesitate to sacrifice their lives for freedom and a peaceful and dignified future for the coming generations.

NIS - US Ambassador to Serbia Michael Kirby said on Wednesday each country had its own foreign policy and interests, and that he was not in a position to decide how many friends Serbia should have.

BELGRADE - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko will on Wednesday arrive on a two-day visit to Serbia during which he will speak to Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic, with several agreements also to be signed.

On arrival in Belgrade, Lukashenko will lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Mt. Avala, with official meetings scheduled for Thursday.

BELGRADE - Serbia should not take sides and I would like the country to pursue the policy similar to the one carried out by Josip Broz Tito, but it should also align its policy with that of the EU, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has said.

MINSK - Serbia practically already lives in the EU, as it is surrounded by it, but it can build good relations with Russia and Belarus as well, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, who will visit Serbia on Wednesday, has said.

Serbia should find a path that will not dissapoint the east or the west, he told the daily Politika.

Belarus "offered S-300 to Serbia, Milošević turned it down"

BELGRADE -- Serbia "practically already lives in the EU, as it is surrounded by it, but it can build good relations with Russia and Belarus as well."

This is what Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, who is due to arrive here on Wednesday for an official visit, told the Belgrade daily Politika.

The Presidents of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan signеd on Thursday an agreement establishing the Eurasian Economic Council.

Kazakhstan's capital Astana saw the emerging of a 170-million-strong bloc in which free movement of goods, capital, services and working force are to be guaranteed.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday arrived in the Kazakh capital where he was set to sign a deal with his Kazakh and Belarussian counterparts creating a new economic union championed by Moscow.
      
Putin, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev were due to sign the document in Astana following talks on Thursday.