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BELGRADE - A total of RSD 60 million in aid will be given to repair the damage caused by floods in 22 municipalities, the Serbian governmentt committee for assessment of damage caused by natural disasters said on Thursday.

"DSS will be part of ruling majority in Belgrade"

BELGRADE -- Andreja Mladenović said on Wednesday that the DSS will be part of the ruling majority and back the SNS candidate for mayor of Belgrade.

Mladenović heads the councilor so f the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) in the Belgrade City Assembly.

BELGRADE - The consultations concerning the future mayor of Belgrade and other members of the city administration will take place in the course of the day and the name of the candidate for the mayor will officially be made public on Thursday, caucus whip of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) in the Belgrade City Assembly Aleksandar Jovicic said.

BELGRADE - The Democratic Party (DS) whip in the Belgrade city assembly Balsa Bozovic said on Wednesday that full responsibility for all developments in the city rests with the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), adding that the DS will be a constructive opposition in the assembly.

BELGRADE - Nikola Nikodijevic of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) was elected president of the Belgrade city assembly on Wednesday, by the votes of 84 assembly members.

A total of 102 out of 110 assembly members cast their votes for the new city assembly president.

After the election, Nikodijevic assumed the role of chairman of the constitutive meeting.

BELGRADE - The International conference of young scientists, which was a major success for the Belgrade 2 Regional Talent Centre, ended on Tuesday with an award ceremony.

The conference involved young scientists from 18 countries worldwide, including Germany, Russia, Lithuania, Ukraine, the Netherlands, Turkey, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Singapore and Indonesia.

BELGRADE - Around 5,000 hectares of agricultural land in Serbia have been fully or partially flooded, but the torrential floods should leave no long-term consequences on the land affected, Serbia's Minister of Agriculture Dragan Glamocic has said.

The exact information and the extent of damage to agriculture will become known in the coming days, Glamocic told the RTS on Tuesday.

Teenager fatally shot in Belgrade schoolyard

BELGRADE -- A 16 year old boy was shot and killed in Belgrade on Monday night in the yard of an elementary school in the neighborhood of Kaluđerica.

BELGRADE - The opening of Chapters 23 and 24 is important for the entire reform process in Serbia, said Tanja Miscevic, Serbia's chief negotiator in EU accession talks.

BELGRADE - Belgrade is hosting the International Conference of Young Scientists (ICYS) until April 23, which is an unofficial world championship for research papers from several domains, bringing together high-school students from the entire world.