News archive of March 2014

BRUSSELS - Serbia is on a good way to get a government which would conduct reform policy actively, outgoing Serbian Finance Minister Lazar Krstic stated in Brussels on a panel concerning European integration.

BELGRADE - U.S. Ambassador Michael Kirby stated on Monday that he believes Serbia will act in keeping with its own interests in the matter of the crisis in Ukraine and that it would say that an attack on neighbors is not a good idea, especially from the perspective of a small country.

BELGRADE - Deputy Director of the Security Information Agency (BIA) Dragan Markovic submitted on Monday a request to be discharged from the office, BIA confirmed for Tanjug.

H.E. Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, attended the annual awards ceremony for Novinite's "Personality in the News 2013", Monday.

"Wherever I go, no one forgets that I am Bulgarian!", Bokova claimed upon receiving the award in the Politics category.

UZICE - Serbian Minister of Youth and Sports Vanja Udovicic stated at a panel in Uzice on Monday that the transformation and privatisation in sports would be carried out efficiently and that the government will also provide assistance in the process.

BELGRADE - Air Serbia national airline has reintroduced direct daily flights from Belgrade to Sofia after 15 years.

The summer flight schedule includes daily flights by ATR 72 airliner which can carry 66 passengers, with flights from Belgrade departing at 1.30 p.m. and flights from Sofia departing at 4.10 p.m.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan declared victory in local polls and said he would "enter the lair" of enemies who have accused him of corruption and leaked state secrets. 

"They will pay for this," he said, addressing his supporters from a balcony of at the headquarters of the ruling AKP party.

The special prosecution for high-tech crime said on Monday that it would investigate after extremist movement SNP Nasi published a list of 30 actors, directors, writers, political analysts and journalists who it described as “traitors” and “the greatest haters of the Serb people”.

The recent economic recovery has not yet been able to create new jobs, according to the European Commission's latest Employment and Social Situation quarterly report.

BRUSSELS - A new round of dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina begun in Brussels Monday, and its main themes are judiciary and the setting up of the Community of Serb municipalities (ZSO) in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM).