Tanjug

BELGRADE - Serbia's Tanjug News Agency and the Bulgarian news agency BTA signed an agreement on inter-agency cooperation on Thursday.

It was signed by Manja Grcic, director of Tacno - the holder of the Tanjug trademark - and BTA Director Kiril Valchev.

The signing of the agreement was also attended by Tanjug TV Executive Director Senka Tesic.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met on Thursday with representatives of MEDEF, a federation of French employers, urging French businesspeople to invest more in Serbia.

The meeting addressed deepening of economic cooperation and interest among French companies to take part in EXPO 2027 in Belgrade.

ROME - Serbia's Adriana Vilagos won the silver medal in the women's javelin throw event at the European Athletics Championships in Rome on Tuesday evening.

With a 64.42 m throw, Vilagos also broke the Serbian national record of 64.21 m, set by Tatjana Jelaca in Zurich in 2014.

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic said on Wednesday Serbia considered Gabon as its great friend and an important partner.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Milos Vucevic welcomed Gabonese counterpart Raymond Ndong Sima outside the Palace of Serbia in Belgrade on Monday.

The welcoming ceremony was followed by a tete-a-tete meeting between Vucevic and Ndong Sima and a plenary meeting of Serbian and Gabonese delegations.

STRASBOURG - The Council of Europe (CoE) Committee of Ministers did not debate the so-called Kosovo's CoE membership bid on Friday after it was not included in the final agenda adopted before the committee met in Strasbourg, Tanjug learns.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government adopted on Thursday a regulation on the establishment of an Office for Public and Cultural Diplomacy to additionally promote state interests to the local and foreign public through presenting national values and goals.

BELGRADE - Serbian basketball champions Red Star Belgrade beat arch-rivals Partizan 80-73 at home on Wednesday evening to extend their lead in the playoffs final series of the regional ABA League to 2-0.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister without portfolio Nenad Popovic laid a wreath at a memorial to the WWII liberators of Belgrade on Wednesday to commemorate May 15, 1945, the day when WWII military operations ended in the territory of the former Yugoslavia.

Poplovic laid the wreath as an envoy of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

BELGRADE - A UN General Assembly debate on a Srebrenica resolution will most likely be postponed again until May 22, Tanjug learns.

This means Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will be travelling to Kotor, Montenegro, for a May 16 summit of EU and Western Balkan leaders.