Ivan Mrkic

VIENNA - The ties between Austria and Serbia are better than ever and can only be expected to become stronger, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkic has said.

"In many areas our cooperation has been exemplary," Mrkic told Tanjug on Thursday after a Serbian delegation headed by President Tomislav Nikolic ended the first day of its official visit to Vienna.

"West wants Serbia to join sanctions against Russia"

BELGRADE -- Western countries are asking from future PM Aleksandar Vučić that Serbia "joins the EU sanctions against Russia because of the crisis in the Crimea."

This is according to an article in Friday's edition of the Večernje Novosti daily.

Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkic very generous with passports President’s mother-in-law has diplomatic passport

Belgrade Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkic gave diplomatic passport to Milka Ninkovic (85), mother of Dragica Nikolic, a wife of the President of Serbia, the Blic learns.

FM once again receives Russian and EU diplomats

BELGRADE -- Russian Ambassador to Belgrade Aleksandr Chepurin has conveyed his country's position on the situation in Ukraine to Serbian Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkić.

BELGRADE - Russian Ambassador to Belgrade Alexander Chepurin has conveyed Russia's position on the situation in Ukraine to Serbian Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkic.

Chepurin met with Mrkic on Wednesday and conveyed a message from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the Serbian Foreign Ministry said in a statement, but did not elaborate on the message.

BELGRADE - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkic conferred on Wednesday with the head of the EU delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport, who said that the EU foreign policy and security chief Catherine Ashton wishes to visit the Republic of Serbia after its new government has been formed.

BELGRADE - The Ukrainian embassy in Serbia has issued an apology over a "technical error" in a promotional video in which Serbia is omitted from the map of Europe, stressing that this in no way reflects neither the personal views of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk nor Ukraine's official position, the Serbian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Ukrainian embassy apologizes for "technical error"

BELGRADE -- The Ukrainian embassy has apologized to Serbia over what they said was a technical error in a promotional video used by Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

Serbia and several regional countries were removed from the map of Europe shown in the video.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkic has invited the Ukrainian embassy charge d'affaires to a meeting to discuss Ukraine's promotional video about joining the EU that featured a map of Europe without Serbia.

BELGRADE - Serbia's view concerning the events in Ukraine is known and unchanged, the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has stated.