News archive of February 2014

BELGRADE - Ballet Nacional de Espana (Spanish national ballet) will perform in Belgrade for the first time on March 28, providing an opportunity for the Serbian audience to see a live performance of the dance featured in the masterpieces by Spain's legendary film director Carlos Saura “Carmen” and “Flamenco, Flamenco”.

NOVI SAD - An exhibition of photographs by Darko Dozet, titled Nizhny Novgorod - the rudder of Russia, opened late Monday at the Cultural Centre in Novi Sad.

On around 50 large photographs, photojournalist Dozet captured his view of Nizhny Novgorod, a twin city of Novi Sad.

NEW YORK - In the meeting on Kosovo held at UN Headquarters in New York late on Monday, Serbia's outgoing Prime Minister Ivica Dacic said that any debate referring to potential change in the scope and mandate of EULEX should not bypass the UN Security Council, having in mind that UN serves as an umbrella organization for the international presence in KiM.

NEW YORK - The elections in northern Kosovska Mitrovica will go ahead and its mayor will be elected despite the fact that the recent murder and arrest of mayoral candidates contribute to an atmosphere of fear and insecurity, Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic said in New York late Monday.

BELGRADE - European Parliament (EP) Special Rapporteur on the Western Balkans Hannes Swoboda has said that he is unpleasantly surprised by the arrest of leader of the Citizens' Initiative SDP Oliver Ivanovic who is still in detention in Pristina.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The Citizens' Initiative Srpska and the Citizens' Initiative SDP Oliver Ivanovic forged a coalition agreement in Kosovska Mitrovica, according to which the chairman of the municipal assembly and mayor cannot be from the same initiative.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The presidents of the municipal councils in all four municipalities in north Kosovo, mostly populated by Serbs, were elected on Monday.

NEW YORK - The year 2013 was a year of significant political progress which culminated in the landmark agreement between Belgrade and Pristina, and in 2014, efforts must continue to consolidate these critical achievements of the past year in the Brussels dialogue and along the path toward regional reconciliation, stability and prosperity, reads the latest report by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-m

BELGRADE - The United Regions of Serbia submitted on Monday its slate, entitled Let's Work and Live for the snap parliamentary election on March 16.

The first name on the slate is that of URS leader Mladjan Dinkic, follwed yb Sasa Milenic and Verica Kalanovic.

URS Vice Preisdent Suzana Grubjesic is 6th on the list.

BELGRADE - A delegation of the European Parliament (EP) headed by President of the group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the EP Hannes Swoboda visited the Socialist Party o Serbia on Monday, and the talks at the end of the meeting covered the current political situation.