Chief Hague Prosecutor Serge Brammertz will pay a technical visit to Belgrade in the second half of February. He will discuss with Serbian authorities the operational aspects of Serbia’s cooperation with the Hague, member of the Prosecutor’s Immediate Office Frederick Swinnen told Tanjug on Wednesday.
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“Serbia needs custom restitution model”
February 2nd, 2011 |
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Deputy PM Božidar Äelić stated on Wednesday that Serbia needs a custom made restitution model characterized by modesty, particularly in its financial aspect.
“The injustice must be corrected. On the other hand, one must make sure that the indemnification for the injustice committed several decades ago will not jeopardize the future of the nation,” Äelić told the journalists in Belgrade.
Union leader: State will face bankruptcy
February 2nd, 2011 |
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Independence Union President Branislav ÄŒanak says the state will face bankruptcy once faced with “demands from all unions”. “At one point the government will have many demands in front of it, and after answering those demands, the state will have to declare bankruptcy of that company called Serbia,” ÄŒanak told Radio B92 in Belgrade on Wednesday.
EU commissioner: New level of relations
February 2nd, 2011 |
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By submitting its answers to the EC questionnaire Serbia has taken relations with the EU to a new level, said EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule.
“We have started studying hundreds of thousands of pages. There will be many missions that will come to Belgrade,†he told B92.
“Call elections, or see Belgrade grind to halt”
February 1st, 2011 |
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The opposition SNS party leader says that the government will face protests should it fail to call early elections. If the government chooses to ignore the party’s demands, “including the most important one which refers to calling early elections within two months”, SNS will launch protests until the demands have been met, Tomislav Nikolić stated on Tuesday.
Unions urge more negotiations
February 1st, 2011 |
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The Confederation of Autonomous Trade Unions (SSSS) has called on the government to agree to a new round of negotiations on demands tabled by striking teachers. The SSSS supports the actions of the Serbian Education Union in its effort to improve the position and living standard of education employees, according to a statement in Belgrade on Tuesday.
Jat Airways announcement – political stunt?
February 1st, 2011 |
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The future of Serbia’s national air carrier Jat Airways has once again attracted the attention of politicians, a Belgrade newspaper writes. This time, it is thanks to Minister without Portfolio Sulejman Ugljanin, who recently traveled to Turkey and said upon his return that Turkish Airlines intended to “enter an arrangement with Jat by March 1″.
Belgrade-Priština talks in March?
February 1st, 2011 |
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A Belgrade newspaper writes today that negotiations on Kosovo between Belgrade and PriÅ¡tina could start in March. Daily VeÄernje Novosti quotes unnamed sources in Brussels and says in an article published today that EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton’s associate Robert Cooper has been mentioned as a possible mediator.
Opposition leader warns of “provocations”
February 1st, 2011 |
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One of the leaders of Serbia’s opposition, Velimir Ilić, says he learned that the authorities will try to provoke unrest at the forthcoming protest rally. The authorities will “try to repeat the scenario of provocation that took place at the rally in July 2008“, said Ilić, announcing the gathering in Belgrade scheduled for February 5.
Ex-general released after questioning
February 1st, 2011 |
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Aco Tomić, a former military security chief, was released after he was questioned by the police on Monday in Belgrade. Tomić, who holds the rank of general, is suspected of aiding the hiding of Hague fugitive and former military leader of Bosnia’s Serbs Ratko Mladić.
Serbians return from Egypt
February 1st, 2011 |
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A plane with 120 Serbian tourists from Sharm El Sheikh and Hurghada landed on Monday evening at Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla Airport.
As Serbian Ambassador to Cairo Dejan Vasiljević said earlier, after the departure of that group from the two resorts, no Serbian tourists remain in Egypt.
“Turkish Airlines desirable partner”
January 31st, 2011 |
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Turkish Airlines is a serious company which would be a good strategic partner for Serbia’s national airline Jat Airways. This is according to State Secretary for Air Traffic Miodrag Miljković, who spoke for Tanjug on Monday in Belgrade.
Greek parliament ratifies Serbia’s SAA with EU
January 31st, 2011 |
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The Greek parliament has ratified Serbia’s Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) with the European Union, the Greek embassy in Belgrade announced today.
Greek Ambassador to Serbia Dimostenis Stoidis pointed out that the ratification is a practical expression of the commitment with which Greece has supported Serbia’s EU membership, as part of its Agenda 2014 initiative, designed to accelerate the European integration of the countries in the Western Balkans.
Ex-military security chief questioned
January 31st, 2011 |
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A former chief of the Yugoslav Army Security Directorate is being questioned in Belgrade today on suspicion that he helped hide Ratko Mladić. B92 has learned that Gen. Aco Tomić showed up to make his statement accompanied by three lawyers.
Police search house belonging to Mladić’s son
January 31st, 2011 |
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Officers of the Serbian police (MUP) this afternoon in Belgrade completed their search of an apartment owned by Darko Mladić. It has been announced that the search was carried out on an order issued by War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir VukÄević.
Team chief: We want permanent peace
January 30th, 2011 |
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Serbia does not want the issue of Kosovo to block its EU path, we want to provide permanent peace, says Head of the Serbian negotiating team Borko Stefanović.
He told daily Blic that Belgrade wanted to harmonize its national interest and what Brussels saw as possible solutions through direct negotiations with Priština.
Health minister resigns for “personal reasons”
January 28th, 2011 |
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Serbian Health Minister Tomica Milosavljević has resigned, saying the decision came “for deeply personal reasons”.
Reporters who attended his news conference in Belgrade today were not allowed to ask any questions.
European Data Protection Day in Belgrade
January 28th, 2011 |
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The European Data Protection Day will be marked in Serbia for the first time in 2011. January 28 has jointly been marked by the Council of Europe and the European Commission for the past five years.
St. Sava Day celebrated in Belgrade
January 28th, 2011 |
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A ceremony on the occasion of St. Sava’s Day was held in Belgrade on Thursday evening. The event was attended by top officials, dignitaries of traditional churches and religious communities, ambassadors, deans, and public figures.
Holocaust Remembrance Day marked
January 27th, 2011 |
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day has been marked today in Serbia’s capital city of Belgrade. Minister of Labor and Social Policy Rasim Ljajić, representatives of the City of Belgrade and members of the diplomatic corps and the Association of Jewish Communities in Serbia laid wreaths at a monument to the victims of the Holocaust at the grounds of the former German Nazi concentration camp Staro SajmiÅ¡te, which the occupying army set up in Belgrade.