International relations

BELGRADE - Serbia gained surplus in trade with the CEFTA countries amounting to USD 89.7 million in January 2014, reads a statement by the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (RSZ) on Wednesday.

The exports to the CEFTA countries in January amounted to USD 153.7 million, while the imports were USD 64 million, and the export- import ratio equaled 240 percent.

BELGRADE - The new government of Serbia will continue to pursue the policy of the EU integration, accelerated financial consolidation and economic development, Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic said on Wednesday in the talks with members of the delegation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

THE HAGUE - Serbia's legal representatives underlined on Tuesday before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague that Serbia cannot be accountable for the crimes committed in Croatia before the constitution of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SRJ) on April 27, 1992.

BELGRADE - The Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CeSID) is the only domestic organization that requested and got accreditation from the national electoral commission (RIK) for monitoring early parliamentary elections, while foreign observers showed greater interest in that.

BELGRADE - Serbia needs reforms, political party officials agreed at the conference on economic directions of Serbia's development but they did not achieve an agreement as to whether or not the measures of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) should be implemented in the reform process.

BELGRADE - It is clear that Serbia has started modernising its finances, reforming its tax administration and reducing its budgetary deficit, the Serbian government's economic advisor Dominique Strauss-Kahn has said.

BELGRADE - Officials of the Defence Ministries of Serbia and Denmark inked a plan on bilateral military cooperation for 2014, the Serbian ministry has released in a statement.

The plan was signed during a visit of a delegation of the Serbian Ministry of Defence to Denmark as part of regular bilateral defence consultations.

NATO and Serbia strive to strengthen co-operation in Kosovo

BELGRADE – Serbia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and President of the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD) Vuk Jeremic have exchanged opinions on the importance of preserving political and economic stability in the country and its role in the international community, especially when it comes to Serbia’s 2015 OSCE chairmanship-in-office.

German President Joachim Gauck (right) leans in to embrace 90-year-old Esthir Cohen (left) during a visit to a synagogue in Ioannina on Friday. Cohen is one of just two Jews still alive in the northwestern town today who survived the Holocaust and made it back from Auschwitz.