News archive of February 2014

BELGRADE - USAID signed a memorandum on understanding with the Republic Geodetic Authority (RGZ) to set up electronic register of urban plans in Serbia which will be put into operation by the end of the year.

The memorandum was signed by Chief of Party of the USAID Business Enabling Project Joe Lowther and RGZ Director Zoran Krejovic.

BELGRADE - Head of the EU Delegation in Serbia Michael Davenport stated on Friday that the need for the public to be informed must not be an excuse for information leakage which jeopardises the individual right to privacy or assumption of innocence.

BELGRADE - One of the main topics of talks between Belgrade and Pristina in Brussels, which should take place in mid-March, will be releasing from detention of Oliver Ivanovic, leader of the Citizens’ Initiative ‘Freedom, Democracy, Justice’, and other Serbs who have got arrested in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic said Friday.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Foreign and Internal Trade and Telecommunications Ministar Rasim Ljajic and Montenegrin Minister of Sustainable Development and Tourism Branimir Gvozdenovic agreed Friday that there is a great potential in two countries’ businessmen to accessing third markets together.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Members of the Citizens' Initiative "Freedom, Democracy, Justice" (GI SDP) noted on Friday that there were no grounds for the court's decision to extend detention on remand for their leader Oliver Ivanovic, and added that the court in Pristina thus violated the basic human right of the detainee to be released pending trial.

DUBAI - Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic and Canada's Daniel Nestor reached the final of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships in the doubles competition with a hard-fought win over the all-German pairing of Daniel Brands/Florian Mayer 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (10-8) on Friday.

BRUSSELS - NATO supports the Kosovo Security Force (KSF) in its present format, which does not envisage its use as a combat unit; it was stated at NATO headquarters in Brussels.

CANCUN - Serbia's national water polo team will compete at the FINA Water Polo World Cup in Kazakhstan this summer in the Group A with Montenegro, the U.S. and South Africa, the draw in Cancun decided on Friday.

Group B comprises Croatia, Hungary, Australia and Kazakhstan.

FINA World Cup will be held in Almaty from August 19 to 24.

BELGRADE - Serbia's long jumber Ivana Spanovic and shot putter Asmir Kolasinac will take part in the 15th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics, in Sopot, Poland, on March 7-9, Serbian team coach Slobodan Popovic has said.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Zarko Veselinovic, one of the four Serb detainees in Kosovo-Metohija, has been put under house arrest, attorney Dejan A. Vasic, a member of his defense team, said on Friday.