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BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met with OSCE Mission head Jan Braathu and US Ambassador to Belgrade Christopher Hill on Monday to discuss government measures aimed at improving the position of national minorities.

Member of the European Parliament and European Union Rapporteur for Serbia, Vladimir Bilik, stated that he does not anticipate any international investigation of the elections in Serbia.

Asked to comment on the violent protests in Belgrade, Vui said that everyone has the right to protest, as long as there is no violence. "Unfortunately, we knew," Vucic said.
"I am proud of the police in Belgrade who were restrained. They suffered beatings for three hours. They are not ashamed to claim that they hurt themselves," added Vui.

BELGRADE - At an extraordinary press conference, Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said opposition parties and NGOs including CRTA were directly trying to destabilise Serbia and erode its constitutional order.

There is no normal and democratic country where that happens, Brnabic said.

BELGRADE - In a letter to European institutions, the opposition Serbia Against Violence coalition has requested a "full international investigation into electoral irregularities" in Serbia and called on the institutions not to recognise the results of the parliamentary, provincial and, especially, local elections, until such an investigation was over.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government said on Thursday it was aware of preliminary conclusions by an ODIHR (Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights) international election observation mission and added that it awaited the mission's final report on the December 17 early parliamentary elections in Serbia.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Monday received ODIHR (OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights) representatives tasked with observing the December 17 early parliamentary elections in Serbia and noted that, as always before, Serbia was committed to advancement of the electoral process.

SKOPJE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic said on Thursday the so-called Kosovo would never become a member of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

Commenting on reports that Albania had sought OSCE membership for the so-called Kosovo, Dacic said that, fortunately, decisions in the organisation were taken by consensus.

SKOPJE, Nov 30 (Tanjug) - The FMs of Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania signed on Thursday in Skopje a joint statement on the fight against corruption.

SKOPJE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic met with French Secretary of State to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Laurence Boone on the sidelines of the OSCE Ministerial Meeting in Skopje on Thursday.

The parties concluded that their countries maintained an excellent level of bilateral relations and an exceptional dynamic of political dialogue.