Serbia

Kosovo Albanians hold mass rally against EU police plans

BELGRADE, December 2 (RIA Novosti) - Around 6,000 ethnic Albanians held a peaceful protest in Kosovo's capital on Tuesday against UN-backed plans for an EU police mission in the province. Protestors say the plan, proposed by UN...

Serbia warns Russia on pipeline

SERBIA has warned Moscow that it will refuse to sell its oil monopoly to Russia without its firm commitment to building a gas pipeline through the country. The plan to build the $12.7Bn line under the Black Sea via Bulgaria...

From the archives, December 2 1918: Trouble on the Adriatic Coast

The official Serbian and Jugo-Slav representatives left Paris last night, travelling via Brindisi and Corfu, to take part in the formation of a united Government. A hitch occurred at the last moment, due to the resignation of...

Serbia seeks change of Kosovo accord with NATO

Serbia is seeking changes to the accord with NATO that ended the Kosovo war, the country's army chief said Tuesday. Gen. Zdravko Ponos said Belgrade wants the abolition of a no-fly buffer zone between Serbia and Kosovo created...

Govt. to consider budget on Thursday

BELGRADE -- The government will hold a cabinet meeting on Thursday to debate the 2009 draft budget. Until then, committees and ministries will be working intensively on harmonizing the draft. At the meeting, officials from all...

Serbia to “meet remaining Hague commitments”

State Secretary in the Justice Ministry Slobodan Homen said today in Belgrade that Serbia was determined to honor all its obligations to the Hague Tribunal. At a conference entitled “War Crimes Trials—the Current Moment,...

"Return to former exchange rate impractical"

As the dinar continues to fall, banks say the NBS could return the rate to RSD 80 to the euro, though it would be unlikely to retain that level for long. “The National Bank of Serbia (NBS) has enough money to return the rate to...

Murder trial of crime boss Jocić postponed

The trial at the Belgrade District Court of notorious crime baron Sreten Jocić, charged on several counts of incitement to murder, has been postponed . According to Jocić's defense counsel Zdenko Tomanović, the defendant...

Spanish support for Serbian EU integration

Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos says his country supports Serbia ’s EU integration and liberalization of the visa regime for Serbian citizens. Moratinos made the comments during a meeting in Madrid yesterday...

NIS to make salaries public

Economic analysts have expressed support for the news that the Serbian Oil Industry (NIS) will be making public the salaries of its employees. NIS stated yesterday that NIS Chairman Biserka Jeftimijević-Drinjaković would call...

               

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Central Serbia , Kosovo , Vojvodina