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PRIBOJ - More than 600 employees of the Priboj-based FAP are officially in a paid leave status by the end of June but the company's management engaged around one hundred of them in the manufacture of ten FAP 1118 trucks for the needs of Serbian Armed Forces and the preparation of the factory's takeover by the Finnish SISU Auto.

Esad Dzudzevic, acting head of the Bosniak National Council, BNV, in Serbia, said the council will urge members of the Bosniak [Muslim] community in Serbia to remove Serbian-sounding endings to their last names, such as "vic" and "ic".

Mufti hopes for unity among Serbia's Muslims

BELGRADE -- The Islamic Community of Serbia (IZS) wants unity of Muslims to be achieved under its Riyasat in Belgrade, IZS deputy Reis-ul-Ulema Muhamed Jusufspahić says.

The all-female madrassa, which was launched in the village of Miljes on Sunday, is a religious high school which is intended to give pupils a basic knowledge of Islamic culture and religion.

Its construction was funded by a Kuwaiti foundation, Rahma al-Alamiya, and will be able to take in around 200 girls.

President to nominate prime minister on Tuesday

BELGRADE -- Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić will nominate the country's next prime minister on Tuesday, April 22, it was announced on Thursday.

Nikolić will do so after the conclusion of the consultations he started with parliamentary parties, the president's media service said.

Sandžak party "won't join at any cost"

BELGRADE -- Party of Democratic Action (SDA) leader Sulejman Ugljanin said on Thursday he expected an invitation from Aleksandar Vučić to talks about the next government.

However, he noted on Thursday, this party from Serbia's southwestern Sandžak region, "would not become a part of that government at any cost."

The Belgrade appeals court reversed a ruling that the Yugoslav Army was responsible for the violation of the rights of Bosniaks attacked near the Serbian town of Priboj in 1993.

BELGRADE - The parliamentary vote will be repeated at one polling station in Novi Pazar, western Serbia, on March 23, the Electoral Commission of the Republic of Serbia has decided.

The commission said 2,371 ballots and 18 reserve ballots would be printed for the rerun of the election at polling staion 27.

NOVI PAZAR – Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) leader Aleksandar Vucic has said in the southwestern Serbian city of Novi Pazar that Serbia does not need inter-ethnic conflicts and tension and that religious affiliation should never be a reason to draw differences between people as people should be evaluated by how honest, hardworking and successful they are.

NOVI PAZAR - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and Internal Trade and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic opened on Thursday a textile fair in Novi Pazar, with 36 exhibitors from Turkey and Serbia.