Government of Serbia

The gathering was organized as part of President Aleksandar Vucic's "Future of Serbia" campaign.

Kosovo is Serbia's southern province where ethnic Albanians 11 years ago unilaterally declared independence, which Serbia considers to be a violation of its Constitution and territorial integrity.

Markovic, the widow of former Serbia and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, died last week in Russia.

The foreign minister and SPS party leader said the gathering will last several hours, starting at 16:00 CET, and will be "ten, fifteen times more massive" than the opposition rally held in Belgrade last Saturday.

Foreign Minister and First Deputy PM Ivica Dacic said this, referring to the Serbian president's upcoming trips abroad.

In the abuse of office case, Markovic was accused of inciting Zivka Cica Knezevic, who at that time was a Serbian government secretary and a member of the government housing commission to give an apartment to Ilona Pesic, a woman who babysat Markovic's grandson.

Serbia has started the construction of its section of the TurkStream pipeline to carry Russian natural gas to Europe, country's foreign minister, Ivica Dacic, said on April 16.

The Serbian foreign minister and first deputy PM said this in SUbotica, where a joint session of the two governments is being held, and where he met with Hungarian counterpart Peter Szijjarto.

The opposition gave the authorities six days to fulfill their demands.

Mirjana Markovic in 2001. Photo: Koca Sulejmanovic/EPA.

Mirjana Markovic, the widow of the former president of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, died in hospital in Moscow on Sunday, Serbian media reported.

Markovic is reported to have undergone surgery several times in Russia recently, after which her condition deteriorated. The cause of death was not immediately made public.