Balkan countries

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday evening it was good Serbia had made progress on 31 out of 34 chapters of the EU accession talks and that it was important for the country to move forward on the EU path while safeguarding its national interests.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met with French special Western Balkans envoy Rene Troccaz on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Vladimir Orlic met on Monday with Romanian Chamber of Deputies Speaker Alfred Simonis, who is in Serbia on what is his first official trip abroad since he took office.

BEIJING - After meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said on Monday in Beijing the discussion with Xi had been excellent and that the Chinese leader had said he would try to come to Serbia next year.

The meeting began at 10:00 a.m., in the building of the General Secretariat of the President of the Republic, the Office for Media Relations of the President announced.

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BELGRADE - Serbia registered 3.3 pct more tourist visits in September 2023 relative to the same month of last year and the number of overnight stays was down by 9.5 pct, according to figures released by the national statistical office.

Overnight stays generated by Serbian tourists were down by 21.9 pct y-o-y, while those generated by foreign tourists were up by 12.8 pct y-o-y.

BELGRADE - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met with Serbian PM Ana Brnabic in Belgrade on Tuesday to discuss an EU growth plan for the Western Balkans.

"I discussed Serbia's reforms in the context of the Growth Plan with the Serbian PM," von der Leyen wrote in a post on the social media network X.

He referred to the meetings in Brussels and said that the Prime Minister of Pristina institutions, Albin Kurti, performed a trick, which he believes will not happen again.
"It is a kind of quadrature of a circle, a vicious circle from which it will not be easy to get out," said Vui at the beginning.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday his meeting with the envoys of a "big five" of Western states had been difficult and that there had been no easy topics for Serbia but noted that, under an agreement that was in place, he could not elaborate on it.

BELGRADE - Commenting on a draft European Parliament resolution calling on the EU to impose sanctions against Serbia that would be similar to those against the so-called Kosovo, Elvira Kovac, a member of the Serbian delegation to the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, said on Wednesday the resolution would not be binding.