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BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Youth and Sports Vanja Udovicic and senior vice-president of sports infrastructure development company AECOM Riad Nashif signed a protocol of cooperation in the field of public private partnership.

The UAE-based AECOM expressed interest in cooperation with Serbia, Udovicic said Monday.

VIENNA - Austria's Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz said on Tuesday he looked forward to Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic's visit to Vienna on Wednesday, stressing that it was very significant that Vucic's agenda included meetings with Austrian companies, and not just politicians.

BELGRADE - Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has announced that the Austrian government has decided to give Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) EUR 500,000 each for repairing the damage caused by the recent severe flash floods.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met with the country's Protector of Citizens Sasa Jankovic on Monday and pledged to ensure the conditions for the smooth performance of the Protector of Citizens' activities, the Serbian government's media relations office said in a statement.

PRIBOJ - More than 600 employees of the Priboj-based FAP are officially in a paid leave status by the end of June but the company's management engaged around one hundred of them in the manufacture of ten FAP 1118 trucks for the needs of Serbian Armed Forces and the preparation of the factory's takeover by the Finnish SISU Auto.

BELGRADE - Velimir Ilic, Serbia's minister without portfolio responsible for emergency situations, has said that, in the flood-affected areas he toured, 1,500-2,000 housing facilities should be torn down.

Ilic told the Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti that he toured over 80 percent of the flood-hit areas.

BELGRADE - Through a charity exhibition of photographs, titled PhotoSolidarity to Remember, the Tanjug News Agency has raised money that will go to the fund established in aid of flood victims.

The exhibition, staged at Mikser House, featured hundreds of photographs made by Tanjug photo reporters in all crisis spots, as a testimony of the disaster that befell Serbia in May.

BELGRADE - Serbia needs to carry out reforms and adopt legislation and by-laws that would accelerate them, Kori Udovicki, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State Administration and Local Self-Government, has said during a meeting with the head of the Council of Europe (CoE) mission to Serbia, adding that projects for implementing those reforms are welcome.

"USD 1 billion to modernize Belgrade airport"

BELGRADE -- USD 1 billion will be invested in the expansion and modernization of Belgrade's Nikola Tesla Airport, the daily Večernje Novosti reports in its Friday edition.

BELGRADE, May 30 (Tanjug) - USD 1 billion will be invested in the expansion and modernization of Belgrade's Nikola Tesla Airport, Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti reports in its Friday edition.