Ivica Dačić

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic and African Union Commission Chair Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma have signed a memorandum of economic cooperation.

The document, signed in Belgrade, refers to cooperation between the Serbian government and the African Union Commission.

Serbia is opposed to the construction of the fence on the border between Serbia and Hungary, Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic said on Thursday.

He also "underscored that it is up to the EU now to show whether it is for or against fences."

Ivica Dacic has described as untrue the claims "in the Pristina press" that "everything has already been agreed on" during the Kosovo talks round this week.

Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said ahead of the resumption of Belgrade-Pristina talks in Brussels there were "no changes to Serbia's position."

Speaking in Milan, Italy, on Monday, he added the Serbian side will be constructive but will not recognize Kosovo "by any action."

Ivica Dacic appointed on Monday Ambassador Martin Sajdik of Austria as his new Special Representative in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group.

Dacic, who serves as Serbia's foreign minister, made the appointment in his role as OSCE chairperson-in-office.

If it is true that the EU asked Russia to build an eastern gas ring that would bypass Serbia, the EU "should have told Serbia about it," says Ivica Dacic.

Michael Davenport, head of the EU Delegation in Serbia, on Friday that he had not been able to clarify the Serbian Foreign Minister's claim that the EU was being "hypocritical towards Serbia" about the South Stream pipeline, because the EU wanted to bypass Serbia with the new pipeline project, called East Ring.

Gazprom claims thar EU "offered Russia to build pipeline bypassing Serbia"

Ivica Dacic says he learned "from Russian colleagues" that EU officials "offered Russia to build a gas pipeline dubbed Eastern Ring."

This pipeline would go through Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia - bypassing Serbia.

Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, Finance Minister Dusan Vujovic and Economy Minister Zeljko Sertic conferred with Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak.

Dacic and Novak are the co-chairmen of the joint committee for cooperation between Serbia and Russia.

Ivica Dacic says he learned "from Russian colleagues" that EU officials "offered Russia to build a gas pipeline dubbed Eastern Ring."

This pipeline would go through Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia - bypassing Serbia.