Peacekeeping

THE HAGUE - The second set of Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) for responding to international cyber security challenges will be adopted in December, when a ministerial meeting will be held in Belgrade, OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said in The Hague on Thursday.

BELGRADE - Chief-of-staff the Serbian Armed Forces Ljubisa Dikovic took part in the first conference of chiefs of staff of the countries participating in the multinational UN operations held in New York, the Defence Ministry released in a statement.

This is the first conference of the kind organized by the UN since its establishment.

A Dutch UN helicopter crashed on Tuesday in northern Mali near the city of Gao, killing two people.

The cause of the crash remains unclear and so far there have been comments neither from the Dutch defence ministry nor from the UN peacekeeping mission, the BBC reports.

BELGRADE - Members of the Serbian defense ministry and armed forces engaged in the UN peacekeeping mission in Cyprus were granted the UN medals for their excellent service, the Serbian ministry of defense issued a release on Wednesday.

NATO officials on "EU army," Kiev's "peacekeepers" idea

MONS -- NATO leaders have reacted with restraint to the proposal of EC President Jean-Claude Juncker to create the army of the European Union.

BELGRADE - Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic , who is on a visit to the Central African Republic, told UN Secretary General's Special Representative for that country Babacar Gaye that Serbia will continue to actively contribute to preserving international peace and security.

Defense minister visits peacekeepers in Africa

BELGRADE -- Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic has visited members of the MoD and the Army (VS) in two multinational peace operations in the Central African Republic (CAR).

BELGRADE - Serbian Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic visited members of the Serbian Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces (VS) on two multinational peace operations in the Central African Republic (CAR), the Ministry of Defense said in a release on Sunday.

Serbian peacekeepers in Lebanon "safe"

BELGRADE -- All Serbian Army members who serve in UN's UNFIL peacekeeping mission in Lebanon are well and safe, the Ministry of Defense has said.

Spokesman Maj. Jovan Krivokapic said that the ministry was "monitoring the situation in the field and maintaining constant contact with our people deployed in the operation zone."

Regional forces work with US to promote peace, stability

Regional security forces co-operate with the US Marines to boost their peacekeeping capacities through joint military exercises.

US Marines attempt to break through Bulgarian and Serbian soldiers during the riot control course of Platinum Wolf 15 at the South base in Serbia. [US Marines]