Military Security Agency

BELGRADE - The Serbian Bureau for Coordination of Security Services concluded on Monday the security situation in the country was stable despite numerous challenges and threats to national security and that all security services were working actively to eliminate any security risk to peace and stability in the country and the region and to Serbian citizens.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will meet Russian ambassador Alexander Bocan Harchenko on Thursday after a video published on YouTube allegedly showed Russian diplomat Georgiy Kleban giving money to an as-yet-unknown Serbian official in Belgrade.

Prva TV said it received confirmation that the four have been detained for attempting to film the building of the Old (Army) General Staff in Belgrade using a drone.

Tanjug is quoting a Ministry of Defense Statement issued on Thursday that said the arrest came after several months of evidence gathering.

The Military Police cooperated with the Military Security Agency (VBA) and the Interior Ministry (MUP) to question several persons on suspicion that they committed criminal acts of abuse of official position and trading in influence.

In his 2015 report submitted to Serbia's parliament on Wednesday, Ombudsman Jankovic said the state of human rights in Serbia was far from satisfactory.

In the section on the police and secret services, Jankovic said the Military Security Agency, VBA, had actively sought information about the activities of various political parties and movements.

BELGRADE - The opposition Democratic Party (DS) rated the work of the Serbian government during its first year in office as unsatisfactory, pointing out as an example the current state of the security sector.

BELGRADE - The Military Security Agency (VBA) has provided the initial documents about the incident between the Gendarmerie and the military police in Belgrade in September last year and that is a step in the right direction, Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic has posted on his Twitter account.

BELGRADE - The Military Security Agency (VBA) did not violate any laws, and Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic failed to provide strong evidence that leaders of trade unions, high-ranking party officials, prosecutors and judges were under audio surveilance, the Serbian parliament committee for monitoring security agencies has concluded.

Defense minister: PM is "most endangered person"

BELGRADE -- Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic has said that the Military Security Agency (VBA) was "not wiretapping anyone without a court order."

He at the same time described Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic as "the person that is most endangered at this moment."

Committee finds military agency did not breach law

BELGRADE -- The Committee for Security Services Oversight of the Serbian Parliament has concluded that the Military Security Agency (VBA) had not violated the law.