Aleksandar Vulin

Commenting on US sanctions imposed on the head of Serbia's Security Information Agency, BIA, Aleksandar Vulin, President Aleksandar Vucic said he is not being sanctioned for any criminal activities but for his close ties with Russia.

POZAREVAC - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday sanctions the US had imposed on Security Information Agency chief Aleksandar Vulin were not due to his involvement in crime or corruption, but to his attitude to the Russian Federation.

The US Treasury Department on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Aleksandar Vulin, the hardline head of Serbia's Security Information Agency, BIA, accusing him of involvement in various corrupt activities.

Thousands of demonstrators rallied in front of the Serbian government building in Belgrade on Friday evening at the sixth of the weekly 'Serbia Against Violence' protests that were initially sparked by two mass shootings in May.

BELGRADE - The Serbian Bureau for Coordination of Security Services concluded on Monday the security situation in the country was stable despite numerous challenges and threats to national security and that all security services were working actively to eliminate any security risk to peace and stability in the country and the region and to Serbian citizens.

Minister of Internal Affairs of Serbia, Aleksandar Vulin, the Minister of European and International Affairs of Austria, Alexander Schallenberg, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary, Peter Szijjrt, addressed the public after the meeting.

The Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, BCBP, and Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights, YUCOM, on Friday urged the Prosecution for Organized Crime, TOK, when prosecuting people smuggling gangs, to examine information published by BIRN about the links between Ministry of Interior officials and smugglers.

"The creation of the Serbian world is a process that cannot be stopped", said Serbian Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin. "It is important that all Serbs, no matter where they live, be united and that all issues of national interest be resolved together in Belgrade, the capital of all Serbs", he stressed.

"I have just finished talking with the President of France, whom I thanked for the fair role that France and he personally have in relation to Serbia and its citizens. The conversation was essential and very specific on all burning issues in the Western Balkans, in addition, through the prism of all events in Eastern Europe.

The Youth Initiative for Human Rights, a Belgrade-based NGO, filed a lawsuit on Monday against the Serbian Interior Ministry after it banned rights activists from organising a public gathering to paint over a mural of Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic on the wall of a residential building in the capital.