Bujanovac

Nagip Arifi, mayor of Bujanovac, a mainly Albanian municipality in southern Serbia, told BIRN on Friday that Serbian Albanians plans to set up a municipal union on the same lines as Serbs have done in Kosovo.

Bujanovac municipality President Nagip Arifi has announced a "constitutive session of an association of municipalities with Albanian majority."

The meeting will take place in Presevo, southern Serbia, on September 12, the Beta agency is reporting.

Serbian Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic and U.S. Ambassador to Serbia Michael Kirby visited on Thursday the two facilities in Bujanovac, southern Serbia.

They are a music school and a kindergarten whose reconstruction was funded by the U.S. National Guard of Ohio with USD 130,000.

President of the Coordinating Body for Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac Zoran Stankovic says it is "not possible" for the conflict in Macedonia "to spill over."

"Our information shows it is not possible for a spillover to occur of the conflict in Macedonia to the territory of Serbia," he told TV Pink on Monday morning.

BELGRADE - Serbia has a total of 147,604 Roma people, making up 2.05 percent of the population, according to a study titled Roma People in Serbia, by Svetlana Radovanovic and Aleksandar Knezevic of the Faculty of Geography in Belgrade.

The study was done based on data from the census conducted by the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia in 2011.

BELGRADE - The head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia Peter Burkhard commended during a meeting with Serbian Minister of State Administration and Local Self-Government Kori Udovicki on Friday her ministry's efforts to establish routine communication with officials of local self-government authorities in multi-ethnic regions and national minority councils.

BUJANOVAC- A draft law regulating the number of employees in the state administration and local self-government authorities should be adopted in April, Serbian Minister of State Administration and Local Self-Government Kori Udovicki said on Tuesday.

BUJANOVAC- A draft law regulating the number of employees in the state administration and local self-government authorities should be adopted in April, Serbian Minister of State Administration and Local Self-Government Kori Udovicki said on Tuesday.

BUJANOVAC - The cornerstone of a new facility of the Subotica College of Economics, which will cover 2,500 square metres, has been laid in Bujanovac, southern Serbia.

Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport said on Tuesday it had required a lot of joint effort to get the construction under way.

BELGRADE - Members of the armed forces of the United States, Serbia and four regional countries demonstrated on Friday - the closing day of the Platinum Wolf 2015 exercise‚ held at Base South near Bujanovac, southern Serbia - a high level of capabilities for potential tasks in peacekeeping missions.