Tanjug

BELGRADE - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkic and Japanese Ambassador to Serbia Masafumi Kuroki signed and exchanged notes on a EUR 1.43 million worth non-refundable donation from the Japanese government to Serbia, expressing the hope that the donation will further improve the friendly relations between the two countries.

BELGRADE - A mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has started the talks with Serbian officials in Belgrade on Wednesday on the state of public finances in the country, the IMF Resident Representative Office in Belgrade confirmed for Tanjug.

BELGRADE - Director of the Center for Advanced Economic Studies Kori Udovicki said Tuesday that the macroeconomic situation in Serbia is very difficult, adding that a delegations of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is visiting our country to determine how urgent are measures that will have to be taken by Serbia’s new government.

BELGRADE - The Kuwaiti Embassy in Belgrade held a reception at Hotel Hyatt in Belgrade on Monday evening to mark 53 years of independence.

Ambassador Yousef Ahmad Abdulsamad said on the occasion that diplomatic relations between Serbia and Kuwait have spanned over more than fifty years, and noted that the countries have friendly ties and that there are no open issues.

BELGRADE - Belgrade's Akademija 28 will host the 97th Jazz Birthday festival from February 26 to March 1.

The club has celebrated the anniversary of the publishing of the first jazz record for 8 years now. This year, the festival will be international, because a Norwegian band called Norsk Linie will be appearing on the festival stage along with Serbian bands.

BELGRADE - Leader of the United Regions of Serbia (URS) Mladjan Dinkic has said that Serbia must put an end to austerity measures and belt-tightening as that is not a way out of the crisis.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic will travel to Sochi for the closing of the Winter Olympics on Saturday and will afterwards depart for London.

BELGRADE - In cooperation with the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime, the criminal police department (UKP) is running checks regarding those who collaborated with the gang led by drug lord Darko Saric, Director of the Serbian Police Milorad Veljovic said on Friday.

BELGRADE - Indian Ambassador to Serbia Narinder Chauhan held a reception on Friday in view of the Day of the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) program in honor of successful cooperation between India and Serbia in various fields covered by the program.

Numerous unsolved murders of journalists in ex-Yugoslavia

BELGRADE -- The Association of Journalists of Serbia has warned that numerous killings of journalists in the past two decades in former Yugoslavia still remain unsolved.