Landlocked countries

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said on Friday connectivity was crucial for all countries in the region and that the construction of a Nis-Skopje high-speed rail line would bring a different future to the entire region.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday evening it was pointless to respond to all the lies being spread against Serbia and to the removal of a Pristina tombstone of Serbian soldiers who fell during the Balkan Wars and WWI.

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic said on Thursday organised crime groups smuggling migrants in northern Serbia were assisted by Albanian mafia from Kosovo-Metohija.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and other Western Balkan regional issues Miroslav Lajcak in Belgrade on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - The director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Tuesday an invitation by the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak to resume the dialogue in Brussels in two days had been accepted by Belgrade and that the text of a statute of a Community of Serb Municipalities would be on the agenda.

PARIS - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic met with UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay on the sidelines of the 42nd UNESCO General Conference in Paris on Thursday to discuss the preservation of Serbian cultural heritage and deepening of the cooperation with UNESCO.

PARIS - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic announced on Thursday Serbia would apply for membership in the UNESCO Executive Board.

Addressing the 42nd session of the UNESCO General Conference in Paris, Dacic noted that he expected other UNESCO member states to support the application and added that Serbia would live up to the trust.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday evening it was good Serbia had made progress on 31 out of 34 chapters of the EU accession talks and that it was important for the country to move forward on the EU path while safeguarding its national interests.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met with French special Western Balkans envoy Rene Troccaz on Wednesday.

BRUSSELS - In its annual report on Serbia, the European Commission says the country has made progress on judicial and media reforms and on aligning with the EU foreign policy, diplomatic sources have told Tanjug.

The report commends two recently adopted media strategy laws - the Law on Public Information and the Media and the Law on Electronic Media, the sources said.