News archive of September 2023

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday he had had a "long and by no means easy" phone call with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the situation in Kosovo-Metohija.

BELGRADE- Hungarian PM Viktor Orban said on Friday in Belgrade his country always advocated dialogue during any conflict and that it had never supported sanctions against any country.

BELGRADE - Srpska lista deputy leader Milan Radoicic on Friday tendered his irrevocable resignation from his post, his lawyer Goran Petronijevic announced at a press conference, adding that Belgrade had been unaware of Radoicic's actions prior to last weekend's deadly clashes in Banjska, a village in the north of Kosovo-Metohija.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday after meeting with Hungarian PM Viktor Orban and the UAE presidential envoy, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, he believed the meeting and its results were good.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with Hungarian PM Viktor Orban and the UAE presidential envoy, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, at the Palace of Serbia in Belgrade on Friday.

The trilateral meeting was also attended by Hungarian and UAE delegations.

BELGRADE - Serbia will further upgrade its railway infrastructure thanks to a 25 mln euro loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

"Srbija Voz, Serbia's national rail passenger operator, will use the loan to build a new regional depot in Nis and rehabilitate two existing ones in Zemun and Sombor," the EBRD said in a statement.

BELGRADE - Belgrade Mayor Aleksandar Sapic formally resigned on Friday to initiate the creation of legal conditions for December 17 early elections in the city, to be held simultaneously with parliamentary and provincial elections in Serbia.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said on Friday Pristina PM Albin Kurti's terror against Serbs continued in Kosovo-Metohija, as she and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic had warned in the past.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Special units of the so-called Kosovo Police raided the Clinical Hospital Centre in the north of Kosovska Mitrovica on Friday morning, the institution's director Zlatan Elek told Tanjug.

He said Pristina's police had searched the laundry room and some offices without the knowledge of the hospital management and also seized footage from security cameras.

BELGRADE - The Serbian dinar's official median exchange rate against the euro is 117.1996 dinars for one euro on Friday, which is a slight change from Thursday, the National Bank of Serbia said.

The dinar is steady against the euro m-o-m and up by 0.1 pct y-o-y and relative to the beginning of the year.