Peace

The opposition is urging parliament to give organisations representing veterans of the 1990s wars the same right to funding as those who represent World War II troops.

BELGRADE - Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic said Monday that taking part in UN peacekeeping missions was a way in which Serbia wanted to contribute to the promotion of sustainable peace, stability and development and that the country would continue to be a partner with all who were willing to contribute to the preservation of international peace,

BELGRADE - Serbian Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic said during a meeting he has had with Head of the United Nations (UN) Office in Belgrade Peter Due in Belgrade that the cooperation between the Defense Ministry and the UN is very important to the continuation of Serbia's reform process and progress in European integration.

The Ukraine standoff claimed the life of a Red Cross aid worker for the first time after heavy shelling hear the organization's office in the city of Donetsk.

"One of our colleagues was killed when a shell hit close to our office. We're deeply distressed by the loss," the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) wrote on Twitter.

BELGRADE/GENEVA - Ivica Dacic, Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, has conferred with Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, in Geneva, and informed him about the position and problems of refugees from Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina in Serbia and of over 200,000 internally displaced persons from Kosovo-Metohija.

The UN will create a special mission to combat Ebola, deploying staff in the worst-affected states as the UN Security Council declared the outbreak a 'threat to international peace and security'

BUJANOVAC - Military representatives from 20 countries visited "South" (Jug) military base near Bujanovac in southern Serbia on Thursday, where about 270 members of the Serbian Armed Forces (VS) are taking part in an exercise titled "Shield 04" as part of preparations for participation in UN and EU peacekeeping missions.

After the mining accident in Soma, the elevator accident that resulted in the loss of 10 workers at an Istanbul construction site was the final straw. The protests that began right after the incident are still continuing.

BELGRADE - Serbian Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic said Monday that more than 500 members of Serbian Armed Forces (VS) will participate in 13 UN and EU-mandated peacekeeping missions in the course of this year.

A joint mission of the United Nations and the global anti-chemical arms watchdog that has overseen the destruction of Syria's toxic gas stocks will shut down on Sept. 30 though a successor unit will continue investigating, the U.N. chief said.