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BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday he had had excellent meetings with expert teams for EXPO 2027 and an important discussion with Chinese Ambassador to Belgrade Li Ming.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced on Friday new investment plans for the country would be unveiled around January 20 and that they also included wages and pensions.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Minister of Science, Technological Development and Innovation Jelena Begovic said on Wednesday innovation would be one of the main themes of EXPO 2027, to be hosted by Serbia.

Speaking to Tanjug, Begovic said her ministry was keeping up with plans to host the major global event.

BELGRADE - The head of the City of Belgrade Interim Authority Aleksandar Sapic said on Wednesday New Year's Eve celebrations in Belgrade had demonstrated the city was one of the safest capitals in Europe.

"We need to start appreciating the fact we can move in the streets freely even though we live in a metropolis that is developing at tremendous speed," Sapic told Happy TV.

BELGRADE - Serbian Finance Minister Sinisa Mali says work on numerous major projects including the Belgrade Metro, EXPO 2027, a new Belgrade bus station, the BIO4 Campus, the road and rail network and Belgrade Waterfront are expected to be continued in 2024 and that funds for those purposes are available in this year's budget.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Minister of Information and Telecommunications Mihailo Jovanovic says Serbian IT sector exports exceeded 3.5 bln euros in 2023.

"Reporter N1 reports the following from the protest of Djilas students, who block the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Belgrade during the holiday rush: 'There will be music, songs, a DJ has been announced, a kettle will be boiled, most likely beans will be on the menu!'", it was posted on the "Lie Detector" profile on the "X" social network.

BELGRADE - The head coach of the Serbia men's national football team Dragan Stojkovic said on Friday his squad had succeeded in putting Serbia back on the map of European football.

Stojkovic said this after receiving his fourth-career Football Association of Serbia (FSS) Golden Ball Award for Best Coach of The Year.

BELGRADE - Post of Serbia and the China Cultural Centre in Belgrade on Thursday unveiled two editions of Serbian postage stamps that honoured the iron-clad Sino-Serbian friendship in 2023.

BELGRADE, Dec 28 (Tanjug) - Serbia is the absolute regional leader in science, digitalisation and innovation, Minister of Economy Slobodan Cvetkovic said at a presentation of Serbia's progress in digitalisation, hosted by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia (PKS) Digital Transformation Centre.