Mayors of Belgrade

Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali has announced that he will not run for reelection.

Mali told the Belgrade-based daily Alo that he is "proud of everything" that has been done and of the Serbian capital becoming "a big construction site" during his term in office.

The movement 'Let's Not Drown Belgrade', which has been campaigning against the huge government-backed Belgrade Waterfront complex for years, gathered between five and ten thousand people in the Serbian capital to demand that Mayor Sinisa Mali step down.

Activists from the campaign movement 'Let's Not Drown Belgrade' plan a fresh rally in front of Belgrade's city assembly building at 3pm on Wednesday, Serbian Statehood Day.

The campaigners will demand the resignation of Belgrade mayor Sinisa Mali.

More than 10,000 Serbian citizens joined a fresh protest on Wednesday over the Belgrade Waterfront development, one month after an unexplained incident in which dozens of masked men demolished buildings in the riverside area where the state-backed complex is to be built.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will back a number of projects in Belgrade, Mayor Sinisa Mali has said.

These include the building of a new bus station in Blok 42 and the restructuring of public transportation company GSP, Mali explained, noting that this shows the Serbian capital is again an attractive investment destination.

The city will call a tender in the first half of August to select a public transportation partner for the next ten years, Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali has said.

Mali noted that a contract signed with private companies in 2005 expires this year.

A program of cooperation between the City of Belgrade and the Government of Moscow for 2015-2017 was signed on Tuesday.

Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali is currently on a visit to Russia.

Austrian writer and humanitarian Peter Handke was presented with the Charter of Honorary Citizen Of Belgrade by Mayor Sinisa Mali on Thursday.

Mali said during the ceremony the charter was "a stamp on the friendship of a city and a man, a writer and humanitarian who has a special commitment to Belgrade," Tanjug reported.

BELGRADE - Mayor of Zagreb Milan Bandic said Thursday that there is a more positive feel in the relations between Serbia and Croatia, and particularly between the two capitals.

He added that he has not encountered any problems in the cooperation with Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali, nor with Dragan Djilas while he was the mayor of the Serbian capital.

BELGRADE - Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali extended a warm welcome to participants of the Summit of Capital City Mayors of Central and South East Europe, with a message that summits such as this one contribute to the cooperation of the countries that mayors are coming from.