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BELGRADE - Serbian Finance Minister Lazar Krstic said Tuesday that he believes the budget revision will be adopted in August or mid September, after the flood damage estimates and assessment of their effect on the state budget are completed.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and investor from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Mohamed Al Abbar will present the master plan for the City on Water project on Friday, the Tuesday edition of the Belgrade-based daily Politika states.

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Martin Kahf, a consultant for investing in film industry speaks for the Blic about benefits we might have from huge productions.

BELGRADE - Serbia and Canada will pay special attention to the two countries' cooperation in the field of air traffic, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Zorana Mihajlovic and Canadian Ambassador to Serbia Roman Waschcuk agreed in a meeting.

BELGRADE - Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali stated on Monday that the thorough financial consolidation of the City of Belgrade should be completed by 2015.

”As of next Saturday, I expect a thorough fiscal consolidation to be carried out for the capital city and we may even record a surplus,” Mali told reporters in the City Assembly after the adoption of the city budget for 2014.

A senior source in the Montenegrin police told BIRN on Monday that Kosmajac, who has been accused of being a narcotics kingpin in Serbia, entered the country freely on Friday because Belgrade has so far not called for his arrest.

BELGRADE - Four trucks with more than 64 tons of food and other goods, humanitarian aid worth over EUR 35,000 that the people of Greece collected for those badly hit by the catastrophic flooding in Serbia in the second half of May, have arrived in Belgrade, ‘Vojvodjanska banka’ bank, member of the Greek NBG Group, said Thursday.

The Senate of Belgrade University is to ask the Conference of Universities of Serbia, comprised of both state and private universities, to form a commission to review claims that the Interior Minister plagiarised his PhD thesis.

BELGRADE - This year's Afro Festival will start at the Museum of African Art in Belgrade on Friday and last by Sunday presenting a diverse program for all its visitors, the organizers have announced.

Aside from the permanent display, the visitors will have an opportunity to enjoy in an African bazaar - a selling exhibition of art and craft items.

BELGRADE - Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader Cedomir Jovanovic has signaled on Thursday the setting up of a new political bloc with leaders of the former United Regions of Serbia (URS) and noted that he will also talk with the Democratic Party (DS).