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BELGRADE - Dutch company HPK Engineering BV, which was entrusted with the management and business consulting at the state-owned Zelezara Smederevo, has pledged that the steel mill will start to make profit in six months, keep the number of employees and increase salaries by 10 percent, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said.

BELGRADE - Dusan Petrovic, who was the leader of Together for Serbia (ZZS), one of the youngest parties in the country, has been elected president of this party, which has seats in the parliament.

Before the presidential vote, on Sunday, Petrovic presented the ZZS's economic programme, which has 6 points and is aimed at raising the employment rate in the country.

AGERPRES special correspondent, Florentina Peia, reports: The Polish President, Bronislaw Komorowski, on Thursday stated with respect to the strengthening of the Eastern flank of NATO that he counted on Romania's cooperation as well.

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The top US diplomat for Europe declared on March 10 that Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine were subject to a "reign of terror", blaming Russia for a conflict that has claimed thousands of lives.
      

A Ukrainian lawmaker has proposed the creation of a "parliamentary police" after a new brawl that ended up violently on Tuesday, Russian media report.

Dmitro Dobrodomov told Ukrainian TV channel 112 "serious fights" required the measure if such incidents are to be prevented in the future.

Macedonian opposition leader: End of regime is near

SKOPJE -- Macedonia's opposition SDSM party leder Zoran Zaev presented on Monday during a news conference in Skopje "new materials in connection with wiretapping."

He accused Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski of organizing the surveillance.

BELGRADE - Austrian group Swarovski will open a new plant in Subotica, which will exert influence on other major world investors to include Serbia in the list of potential investment destinations, President of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce (PKS) Marko Cadez said on Friday.

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov has revealed he is to travel Ukraine and is "in talks" to pay visit there.

Mitov told reporters in Parliament Thursday that he was intending to visit representatives of the Bulgarian community living there.

"We are currently in talks as to when this will be possible," Focus News Agency quoted Mitov as saying.

Russian pressure on Vu?i?

Russian television "Russia Today (RT)" intensely criticized Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vu?i? and his government.

Television controlled by Vladimir Putin criticized Vu?i? and Serbian government because of their cooperation with company owned by Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of Great Britain.

"Deep distrust between West and Russia"

BELGRADE -- There is deep distrust between the West and Russia and it will not disappear quickly, a panel discussion in Belgrade has heard.