Serbia

"Despite campaign boycott, Serbs will participate"

BELGRADE, PRIŠTINA -- Despite the announced boycott of the election campaign, analyst Dušan Janjić expects the five Serbs lists to participate in early elections in Kosovo.

BELGRADE - Serbia is one of the ten highest-ranking European countries takng part in the UN peacekeeping missions around the world, while in the Western Balkans it is the leader in this respect, said Peter Due, head of the UN Office in Belgrade and a representative of the Secretary-General UN Ban Ki -moon in charge of the region.

Interior minister comments on "attempt to blackmail PM"

SREMSKA MITROVICA -- Nebojsa Stefanović commented on Wednesday on media reports about an alleged attempt by a number of senior police officials "to blackmail PM Aleksandar Vučić."

The interior minister said that the investigation into this case was under way.

BELGRADE - The Belgrade police have arrested three persons for spreading false information on social networks about the number of persons killed in the floods that hit Serbia last week.

The suspects are charged with an attempt to cause panic and disorder, head of the Belgrade police Veselin Milic said at the City Assembly.

BELGRADE - The tax police on Wednesday filed new criminal charges against nine senior managers at the Galenika and Velefarm pharmaceutical companies, including former Galenika director Nenad Ognjenovic and Dragan Backovic, a former chairman of Galenika's board of directors.

BELGRADE - Serbia's EU accession cannot be half-way complete, but full, and this also applies to aligning its foreign policy with Brussels, the deputy head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Oscar Benedict said on Wednesday.

India, FIBA, Austrian region help flood victims

BELGRADE -- The government of India has sent USD 100,000 of financial assistance as immediate aid to the people of Serbia, which has been hit by catastrophic floods.

This was announced by the Indian embassy in Belgrade.

FM attends Non-Alligned Movement conference

BELGRADE -- Serbian FM Ivica Dačić is participating in the Ministerial Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Algeria on Wednesday, the Foreign Ministry has said.

BELGRADE - Chief-of-staff of the Serbian Armed Forces Ljubisa Dikovic has presented a gold plaque of the Serbian Armed Forces to the Military Medical Academy (VMA) on its 170th anniversary.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will meet with Montenegrin President Filip Vujanovic in Belgrade on Wednesday.

Nikolic and Vujanovic will hold a meeting in the Serbian Presidency building in the afternoon and are also scheduled to speak to reporters afterwards.