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The inspections were launched after the city authorities found unlicensed traders at the open-air market in Zemun selling sausages made from meat that had been stolen from a pit where dead animals were buried in the Vojvodina region of Becej.

BELGRADE - General Director of Serbian Railways Dragoljub Simonovic said during a meeting with representatives of China Exim Bank and Hungarian State Railways (MAV) on Thursday that contracting Serbian firms for a project to modernize the Belgrade-Budapest railway is one of the priorities for the Serbian economy.

BELGRADE - The American Chamber of Commerce in Serbia (AmCham) launched an educational project for young business managers and exceptional students in the country, which it titled "AmChamps - Young Leaders in Change", on Thursday.

AmCham Director Maja Piscevic told Tanjug that the program has an important reform component to it.

BELGRADE - Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki will pay a visit to Belgrade on Friday during which he will confer with Serbia's top officials.

Poposki will meet with Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic, Ivica Dacic, outgoing prime minister, and Ivan Mrkic, outgoing minister of foreign affairs.

BELGRADE - The Embassy of Japan donated books, handbooks and other publications, mostly related to Japanese architecture, but to other fields of study as well, to the Belgrade Faculty of Architecture on Thursday.

BELGRADE - The 15th Guitar Art Festival in Belgrade will take place on March 11-16.

The international guitar festival was created in 2000 as a high-level musical event that gathers together classical and guitarists of other genres.

Naxos Trio will perform as the opening act for the event, and they will give the stage over to Brazilian artist Badi Assad.

BELGRADE - Serbian Patriarch Irinej received at the Patriarchate on Wednesday authors and publishers of the book titled "Serbia in the Great War 1914-1918" which was released on the occasion of the centenary of the beginning of World War I.

BELGRADE – Officials of the City of Belgrade and the Chinese State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television signed in Belgrade Wednesday a memorandum on cooperation at this year’s Belgrade Book Fair, where China will be the Guest of Honor.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic stated on Wednesday that the government of Serbia advocates for dignified marking of the World War I centennial and accurate representation of historical facts.

BELGRADE, Feb 19 (Tanjug) – The deadline for the submission of bids for the first stage of works to overhaul and modernize the Belgrade Central railway station has been extended to February 28 because of a large number of companies interested in tendering, Serbian Railways General Director Dragoljub Simonovic told Tanjug on Wednesday.