Seven associations of families of missing persons formed a coalition to more efficiently address Serbian citizens who went missing during the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia.Members of the coalition urged the Serbian authorities to establish a unique electronic database of people who have Serbian citizenship and who went missing during …
Read More »Serbian Socialists Tempted by All Sides
Both government delegations on missing persons have met on Thursday and paid a visit to a suspected mass grave site in the village of Zhilivoda, where exhumation works have restarted. The Chairman of Kosovo’s Government Missing Persons Commission, Prenk Gjetaj, told BIRN that the joint inspection of the site was …
Read More »Serbia and EULEX Join Efforts in Organ Trafficking Case
The cooperation between Serbia and EULEX on an organ trafficking that allegedly took place in Kosovo has been intensified, says the Serbian Office of War Crime Prosecutor.Clint Williamson, head of the EULEX special investigation team in charge of an organ trafficking case, visited Belgrade on Wednesday in order to exchange …
Read More »Belgrade Re-Elects Dragan Djilas as Mayor
Democratic Party candidate Dragan Djilas has started his second term as mayor of Belgrade after 63 of the 110 members of the City Assembly voted for him. “We will continue to do what we have been doing so far, which is continue our fight for a better Belgrade,” Djilas said …
Read More »Serbia Should Encourage Investors
Soskic said that the government should be formed quickly and get a positive review from the IMF because that will encourage new investors. Due to the size of the country, Soskic highlighted the necessity for Serbia to constantly demonstrate its macroeconomic security and encouraged the government to introduce reform measures.
Read More »Regional Boycott Overshadows Serb President’s Inauguration
Tomislav Nikolic pledged to work with everyone and conduct a policy of peace, stability and cooperation in the region – but his message was not enough to persuade several regional leaders to attend the ceremony. Overshadowed by a boycott of the ceremony by several regional leaders, the inauguration of President …
Read More »Serbia Bans Far-Right Organisation ‘Obraz’
Two years after the Serbian prosecutor’s office had requested the ban of the extreme-right group ‘Obraz’, the country’s Constitutional Court outlawed it on Tuesday. The prosecutor’s office has also requested that ‘Obraz’ be deleted from the registry of organisations, as well as for any future association or group that should …
Read More »Belgrade Goes First with Bills by Text
Residents of the Serbian capital have been able to pay their electricity bills via text message since May 23. For now the system is available only to Dina card holders who use the Telekom mobile network, but the plan is to offer the same service to all Belgraders by the …
Read More »New Serbian President expects clear answers from EU
Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic believes that Serbia has done everything asked of it in order to start EU accession talks in the fall. “I expect to finally find out in Brussels what no one in Serbia has heard so far, which is whether
Read More »Vuk Jeremic to preside over the UN General Assembly
Vuk Jeremic, the outgoing Serbian Foreign Minister, has become the first Serb to preside over the UN General Assembly. Representatives of the UN member states have elected Vuk Jeremic of the Democratic Party in Serbia as president of the UN General Assembly.
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