Statistical regions of Serbia

BELGRADE - The 49th Zajecar Gitarijada music festival will be presented at Dom omladine in Belgrade on March 14 as part of the Guitar Art Festival.

All access roads to villages in the Sjenica region in south-west Serbia were impassable on Friday after heavy snowfall, leaving about 10,000 people snowed in.

In the nearby Zlatibor county, about 30,000 people were left without electricity because the supply from about 500 electrical stations was disrupted by the snow.

Rain and snow cause flooding, damage power lines

BELGRADE -- The area around the town of Sabac was most at danger from flooding during the night, MUP Emergency Situations Sector chief Predrag Maric has said.

He also told the public broadcaster RTS that 27 persons had to be evacuated from their homes in Koceljeva, also in western Serbia.

KOPAONIK - A total of 3,047 enterprises have been privatized in Serbia until 2015, the proceeds from them totalling EUR 3.7 billion, Minister of Economy Zeljko Sertic said on Wednesday.

Dozens of migrants found on highways traveling on foot

BELGRADE -- 39 foreign nationals with no personal documents have been discovered in the region of Serbia's eastern town of Negotin on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - Serbia will not recognize the independence of Kosovo that was unilaterally proclaimed by ethnic Albanians, Serbian Minister of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Policy Aleksandar Vulin said Monday.

BELGRADE - The authorities arrested on Saturday the driver of the van that overturned on the motorway near Leskovac while transporting illegal migrants four days ago, Tanjug learnt in the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

After a major police action, the driver was arrested in Pancevo near Belgrade as he was trying to hide from the authorities.

LESKOVAC - The injured illegal migrants admitted to Leskovac general hospital are not in a life-threatening condition and their recovery is going well, hospital director Nebojsa Dimitrijevic told Tanjug on Wednesday.

A total of 29 migrants from Bangladesh, Ghana, Nigeria, Burma, Syria and Algeria are hospitalized in the surgical, orthopedic and ENT departments, he specified.

BELGRADE - This spring will see the start of the construction of the first gondola with closed cabins for panoramic sightseeing in Serbia, which will link central Zlatibor with ski center Tornik, said Arsen Djuric, director of the Zlatibor Tourist Organization.

BELGRADE - Zelezara Smederevo issued a public call in Belgrade-based daily Politika on Friday for a new management, and until the closure of the public call on March 6, Zelezara will keep the current production capacities at 30,000 tons of steel monthly.

The deadline for the submission of proposals for cooperation and concluding of the agreement is March 6, reads the public call.