Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia

BELGRADE - Serbian Armed Forces Chief of General Staff Gen Milan Mojsilovic visited a part of army troops executing tasks in the Raska garrison and the Novi Pazar garrison location in southwestern Serbia and extended holiday greetings to them.

According to the statement, due to the increased interest of citizens in issuing personal documents - passports, IDs and driver's licenses before the summer vacation season, and by order of Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin, the work of the departments for issuing personal IDs is introduced on Sundays as well.

According to him, dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina will continue as soon as on May 13. "Our position is difficult, terribly complicated. President Putin's statements made it even more complicated. I will talk about it tomorrow. I am afraid that it will be increasingly difficult in the economic aspect," he said.

Miroljub Vujovic, a Serb wartime fighter who was convicted in Serbia of participating in killing some 200 prisoners from the Croatian town of Vukovar at the nearby Ovcara Farm in November 1991, has been granted early release based on the Belgrade Appeals Court's conclusion that his "resocialisation" is complete.

Vui first visited and greeted the infantry army, after which he addressed them.
"Be ready, work, practice, and we will do our best to make your life easier. That you can have a secure future. If Serbia calls on you to protect our people, I know that you will respond. Thank you very much for that."
Vui emphasizes that we will keep peace and stability.

The Serbian Defence Ministry showed the film about the now-disbanded Yugoslav Army 125th Motorised Brigade on Thursday evening in Belgrade to commemorate the 40th anniversary of its establishment, despite claims that it was involved in war crimes during eth Kosovo conflict.

The US embassy in Belgrade on Thursday said that Washington "cannot and will not forget" the killings of Ylli, Agron, and Mehmet Bytyqi, three US citizens of Albanian origin, on July 9, 1999, and urged a "full investigation".

"Based on the directive of the Supreme Commander of the Serbian Army and the President of the Republic, Aleksandar Vui, a check of the combat readiness of the commands, units and institutions of the Serbian Army began early this morning," it was stated at the beginning of the press release.

Belgrade Higher Court on Friday sentenced Momcilo Perisic, the former chief of staff of the Yugoslav Army and a former deputy prime minister of Serbia, to three years in prison time for passing state secrets to the United States in 2002.

But even though inter-ethnic relations remain highly sensitive, members of Chetnik associations from Bosnia and Serbia who participate in these events did not face any consequences for staging their rowdy celebrations and singing nationalist songs that seem to threaten bloodshed until last year.