News archive of February 2014

BELGRADE - Serbia needs at least EUR 1.7 billion of direct foreign investments this year and an arrangement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which will most probably be concluded in autumn, economic experts of the Macroeconomic Analysis and Trends (MAT) magazine said on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - Solving the cases of the 351 unidentified remains in the Pristina morgue constitutes a priority in 2014, officials stated at the Tuesday meeting of the Working group in charge of cases of people gone missing during the incidents in Kosovo in 1998-1999.

The working group established that as few as 45 cases were solved in 2013.

BELGRADE - Serbia is an engine taking regional processes in a favorable direction, Gerard Stoudmann, OSCE chairperson-in-office special representative on the Western Balkans, said in Belgrade Tuesday.

BELGRADE - The recent interruption of discussions with political and institutional representatives of ethnic Albanians in Presevo and Bujanovac has brought "no good to anyone," the head of the Serbian government's coordination body for southern Serbia said on Tuesday, urging a resumption of the discussions.

CACAK - The Serbian Ministry of Youth and Sport has started a campaign and initiated the creation of a national committee for battling hate speech on the Internet, and the central event of this project, entitled Using Tolerance and Dialogue against Hate Speech, was held in Cacak, central Serbia, on Tuesday.

BRUSSELS - Maja Kocijancic, spokeswoman for the EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, called on Belgrade and Pristina on Tuesday to find effective ways to resolve the fate of missing persons from Kosovo-Metohija (KiM).

BELGRADE - The National Bank of Serbia (NBS) foreign exchange (FX) reserves amounted to EUR 11,126.4 million at end-January, covering M1 by 359 percent or more than seven months of imports of goods and services.

SARAJEVO/NEW YORK - Commenting on the latest events in the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH), outgoing Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic said that it is very important to preserve peace and stability in the entire region as sometimes it only takes a single spark to bring about instability.

BELGRADE - Olga Jevric, Serbia's renowned sculptor and academician, passed away at the age of 92, her family has said.

Jevric died on Monday.

BELGRADE - The Serbian national female tennis team will play against Romania in the match for the last place in the Fed Cup second world group, the draw in London determined on Tuesday.