Vojvodina

Austria's Gerlinger Holding becomes new owner of Mitros

SREMSKA MITROVICA - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic on Friday attended the handover of keys to the new owner of the Mitros meat processing plant in Sremska Mitrovica, the Austrian company Gerlinger Holding.

The new owner has bound itself to invest EUR 16 million in new equipment and hire 360 workers in the first stage, with production expected to start in early July.

Member of DS party presidency detained, then released

Member of DS party presidency detained, then released

NOVI SAD -- A member of the Democratic Party (DS) presidency and vice-president of the Assembly of Vojvodina, Milivoj Vrebalov, was detained on Monday.

He was released early on Tuesday after a court in Zrenjanin, in the province of Vojvodina, decided there were "no elements" to keep him in jail for up to 30 days.

73rd anniversary of Novi Sad raid

NOVI SAD - The 73rd anniversary of the Novi Sad raid, when Hungarian fascists killed more than 1,300 Serbs, Jews and Roma in only 3 days in January 1942, was marked in Novi Sad on Friday.

Serbia's Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic and Autonomous Province of Vojvodina Parliament Speaker Istvan Pastor laid wreaths at the memorial called Family and dedicated to the victims of the raid.

Prosecutor files appeal for revoking Seselj's release

THE HAGUE- Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Serge Brammertz urged the Appeals Chamber to revoke the measure of provisional release for the accused leader of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) Vojislav Seselj, the ICTY said in a statement on Wednesday.

Grabar Kitarovic wants Seselj sentenced as soon as possible

ZAGREB - Croatia's new president Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic has asked UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to take any action necessary, including calling a meeting of the UN Security Council, to make sure that head of the Serbian Radical Party Vojislav Seselj was taken back into the custody of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and sentenced as soon as possible.

Grabar-Kitarovic: Nikolic will be invited to inauguration

BRUSSELS - Croatia's newly elected president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic has said that she will invite Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic to her inauguration in Zagreb.

"It will be a good opportunity to settle some issues between our two countries," Grabar-Kitarovic told reporters in Brussels after filing her resignation to her position at NATO's headquarters on Thursday.

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