North Macedonia

BUDAPEST - Serbian Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Goran Vesic said on Tuesday in Budapest Serbia and Hungary would invite Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Albania, Greece and Turkey to join the construction of a regional high-speed rail line that would first connect Budapest and Belgrade and then also Nis and Presevo, in the south of central Serbia.

BRUSSELS - The chief negotiators of Belgrade and Pristina, Petar Petkovic and Besnik Bislimi, will meet in Brussels on April 4, Tanjug learns.

Earlier on Tuesday, EU spokesperson Peter Stano announced the chief negotiators in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue would meet in Brussels next week.

North Macedonia's Justice Minister, Krenar Loga, told Monday's briefing with reporters in Skopje that his country would renew efforts to extradite former PM Nikola Gruevski who fled to Hungary to avoid a jail term.

The costly project to build North Macedonia's unfinished corridors 8 and 10 D began as a side story in the media, but now faces widespread controversy, graft allegations and accusations of 'hysteria'.

President Katerina Sakellaropoulou will be on a two-day visit to Serbia from Monday, state-run Athens Macedonia News Agency (AMNA) reported.

There was no information on the agenda of the meeting, which takes place following an invitation by her Serbia counterpart Aleksandar Vucic.

BRUSSELS - EU leaders welcomed on Thursday an agreement reached by the leaders of Serbia and the so-called Kosovo in Ohrid, North Macedonia, on March 18.

In conclusions adopted at the end of the first day of a Brussels summit, the European Council called on both parties to "implement expediently and in good faith their respective obligations."

WASHINGTON - US State Department Counsellor Derek Chollet has thanked Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic for his constructive engagement in a March 18 round of high-level dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina in Ohrid, North Macedonia.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) defined as unprincipled and tendentious the decision of the authorities in North Macedonia to erase from the central register the Bulgarian association "Ivan Mihailov" Cultural Center in Bitola.

BRUSSELS - Serbian Defence Minister Milos Vucevic said on Tuesday the impression in Brussels was that Serbia had been the more constructive partner in the most recent round of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue in Ohrid, North Macedonia.

OHRID - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said in Ohrid, North Macedonia, on Saturday evening some kind of agreement had been made in a new round of Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and that he was pleased with that, and noted that he had not signed anything and that "this was no D-Day."