Tanjug

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday evening the BIO4 Campus - slated to become Europe's new bioeconomic hub - was a "big thing" for Serbia and something that represented the future.

Vucic said this after a ceremonial awarding of the construction permit for the campus.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic received a New Year's greeting card from Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto on Wednesday.

Szijjarto wished Dacic a merry Christmas and a happy New Year, the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

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BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Vladimir Orlic, who is also a Serbian Progressive Party deputy president, says the opposition Serbia Against Violence coalition was talking about alleged electoral irregularities beforehand and that this indicates it was preparing riots.

The authorities will not allow a repeat of the October 5 scenario, Orlic told Tanjug.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic received Russian Ambassador to Belgrade Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko on Monday.

In a statement, the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Botsan-Kharchenko had presented to Dacic a New Year and Christmas greeting card from Russian FM Sergey Lavrov.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with Russian Ambassador to Belgrade Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko on Monday and informed him of last night's riots in Belgrade.

VRBAS - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday Chinese contractors had promised him a high-speed rail line between Novi Sad and Subotica would be finished by end-2024.

LEBANE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said on Wednesday the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) would have far more than 125 seats in the new parliament and would thus be able to form the next Serbian government on its own.

RASKA - Srpska lista leader Zlatan Elek said the citizens of Kosovo-Metohija had once again demonstrated unity by voting in Sunday's Serbian elections.

He said he was glad many Serbs from the Autonomous Province of Kosovo-Metohija had set off to central Serbia early in the morning to vote in the elections.

BELGRADE - The Serbian HOPE Coalition has demonstrated it has a serious political programme and serious people, said Milos Jovanovic, one of the leaders of the opposition coalition, formed by the New Democratic Party of Serbia and the Movement for Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia.

BELGRADE - The leader of the opposition Freedom and Justice Party (SSP), Dragan Djilas, said he expected a high turnout in Sunday's elections in Serbia and added that the SSP-led Serbia Against Violence electoral list would defend the citizens' will by all democratic means available.