Balkans

BELGRADE - Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic will participate in the Informal meeting of the Western Balkans Foreign Ministers in Kotor, Montenegro, on Thursday.

"Peace Park" won't be removed from K. Mitrovica bridge

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Marko Đurić said on Wednesday that "Peace Park will stay in Kosovska Mitrovica and that Serbs have no reason for concern."

BELGRADE - Jadranka Joksimovic, Serbia's minister without portfolio responsible for EU integration, underlined on Wednesday in talks with Jan Kickert, political director at the Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs, that Austria's support is very important for Serbia along the EU path.

BELGRADE – From January to May this year, Serbia saw a total of 786,333 tourist visits, down four percent from 2013, a result of the number of domestic tourist visits decreasing despite a larger number of foreigners arriving, data from the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia shows.

Muslims in the Balkans refute ISIL's so-called caliphate

Interview Bruno Maçães, State Secretary for European Affairs in the Portuguese government Reforms crucial for joining EU

BELGRADE: Serbia's entry into the EU depends on the speed with which the reforms are implemented. We are just at the beginning of that process and it is still impossible to say in which year you will join the EU, says Bruno Maçães for Blic.

Pavel Kandel, Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow counts on Serbia's neutrality

The most important topics to be discussed on the occasion of premier Vučić's visit to Moscow are the implementation of the construction of the gas plant South Stream and the Ukranian crisis – says Russian Analyst Pavel Kandel.

BELGRADE - Head of Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) office in Belgrade Henri Bohnet said that the visit of the German parliamentary delegation led by Andreas Schockenhoff to Serbia can be viewed as a sign of encouragement and support to reforms of the Serbian government in the context of EU integration.

NEW YORK - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic informed in New York on Monday the members of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) about the extent of the damage caused by the May floods in Serbia and invited them to take part in the international donor conference in Brussels on July 16.

BELGRADE - Excavations should continue next week at two slopes of a hill near the Rudnica quarry in southern Serbia, a site suspected of holding bodies of ethnic Albanians missing from the 1999 Kosovo-Metohija conflict.