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It's officially confirmed: Serbian tourists can go to Greece
Milan Vukosavljevic, our consul in Athens, managed to get the Promachonas border crossing, i.e. border checkpoint Kulata, open for our tourists who are waiting all day.
As "Novosti" finds out, our tourists are slowly crossing the border checkpoint and moving towards summer resorts.
"There is no solution for Kosovo and Metohija without the new 'Dayton' Agreement"
Asked if he thinks his idea of a three-stage solution to the issue of Kosovo and a new Dayton seems utopian, primarily because of Pristina's hardline position, Ljajic told Novosti that "from this point of view, every solution seems utopian, for several reasons".
"Croatians reselling Serbian wheat in Kosovo"
Serbian officials had promptly warned about a black market springing up, immediately after Pristina (increased by 100 percent) its taxes on Serbian product, Ljajic told Radio-Television Serbia on Wednesday.
And he added, "When you look at the stores in the north and the south of Kosovo, you can seen that there are Serbian goods that appear there via various channels."
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Next Vucic-Thaci meeting of key importance
According to Ljajic, after the meeting things would clear up on whether the issue would be solved or if it was another failed attempt.
"President of Kosovo Hashim Thaci is in a harder position than Vucic because everyone in Kosovo are against the Kosovo issue being resolved", Ljajic said for PrvaTV.
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Minister tears up as he talks about slain Serb politician
"I told him so many times to leave (Kosovska) Mitrovica," Ljajic, who seemed genuinely distressed by the news, told RTS, adding that an innocent man has been killed.
"It turns out Ivanovic was safer in jail than free," Ljajic said, and continued: "The only important thing now is to discover who was behind the murder... if anything matters at all any longer."
"Significant growth of trade with Turkey"
They discussed "improving the overall economic relations of the two countries and the implementation of infrastructure projects," the Serbian government announced.
As an illustration of the improvement of relations, Ljajic said the trade between the two countries exceeded the record USD 1 billion in the first 11 months of last year.
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Serbia expects more tourists from China and Iran - minister
The country also expects more tourists from China and Iran, the minister of trade, tourism and telecommunications told Beta.
Ljajic said that 2017 was a record year for tourism, with overall hard currency revenue amounting to 1.2 billion euros.
Serbia Hosts Agrokor Summit Without Croatia
Joint measures on the troubled Croatian-based company Agrokor will be considered at a Wednesday meeting in Belgrade of the trade ministers from Serbia [Rasim Lajic], Slovenia [Zdravko Pocivalsek], Bosnia [Mirko Sarovic] and Montenegro [Dragica Sekulic].
Minister Ljajic did not respond to BIRN's queries about whether Croatian representatives had also been invited to Belgrade.
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Ljajic: EP resolution - provocation by Croatian MEPs
BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and head of the National Council for Cooperation with the ICTY Rasim Ljajic said Thursday that the European Parliament's resolution on leader of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) Vojislav Seselj is a provocation by Croatian MEPs and serves as part of the campaign for Croatia's presidential election scheduled for December 28.
Saudi political and business delegation to visit Serbia
Saudi political and business delegation to visit Serbia
BELGRADE -- A policial and business delegation from Saudi Arabia will pay a visit to Serbia, it has been announced.