Ivan Mrkic

BELGRADE - The Vatican does not intend to recognize the unilaterally proclaimed independence of Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), and there are no signals that the five EU member states will change their position concerning the non-recognition of Kosovo's independence either, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkic has said.

UZICE - Over the past year, the Serbian Armed Forces carried out all their tasks in a conscientious, responsible and disciplined manner, Serbian Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Ljubisa Dikovic said on Wednesday.

"The members of the armed forces are used to this and we know no other way of working," Dikovic said at a ceremony marking the Serbian Armed Forces Day.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkic and Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See in Belgrade Orlando Antonini talked in the Serbian capital on Tuesday about the forthcoming visit by Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, Secretary for Relations with States of the Holy See, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has stated.

"Two former top officials hope to head UN"

BELGRADE -- In addition to Vuk Jeremić, Boris Tadić is also interested in running for the post of the next UN secretary-general, the media in Belgrade are reporting.

"Most countries understand Serbia's position on Ukraine"

BELGRADE -- Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkić has said that a majority of EU member-states "demonstrated understanding for Serbia's stand on the issue of crisis in Ukraine."

ATHENS - Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivan Mrkic told Tanjug on Saturday that a majority of EU member countries have demonstrated understanding for Serbia's stand on the issue of crisis in Ukraine.

BELGRADE - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkic will take part in a ministerial session of the EU member and candidate states in Athens on Saturday.

The informal meeting hosted by EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton will table the integration process of the EU candidate countries, the Eastern and the Southern partnerships.

BELGRADE - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkic conferred on Tuesday with Takashi Kosugi, Japanese former minister of education and MP of the Liberal Democratic Party, on fostering of the two countries' relations.

During the talks, the two officials agreed that there is a mutual interest in promotion of overall Serbian-Japanese relations, the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

BELGRADE - President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman arrived on an two-day official visit to Serbia and immediately met with President Tomislav Nikolic on Tuesday.

Nikolic greeted Zeman and the Czech delegation he leads in front of the Palace of Serbia with full state honors, after which the two presidents started a tete-a-tete meeting.

MAUTHAUSEN - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic ended a two-day working visit to Austria on Friday by visiting the Mauthausen Memorial, where where he laid a wreath at the memorial monument to Yugoslav victims.