News archive of June 2014

SARAJEVO/BELGRADE - Prosecutor of the Special Department for War Crimes of the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) issued an indictment against two Bosniaks and one Croat for involvement in the killing of at least 90 persons of Serb nationality in the wider area of Sarajevo's Trnovo municipality.

German support, requirements remain

BERLIN -- Germany will support Serbia on its path to the EU but will not relax its requirements on that road, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Monday.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic on Monday received Bulgaria's ambassador to Belgrade Angel Simeonov Dimitrov ahead of the upcoming visit of Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin to Serbia on July 3.

BELGRADE - Microsoft Srbija presented the Met Mobile Challenge award to the Catch Code team from Prokuplje, developers of a mobile phone application for coding and decoding text messages, which is already available to Windows Phone users around the world via the Microsoft's website.

Coca-Cola HBC (CCHBC), the world’s No 2 bottler of Coca-Cola Co drinks, plans to delist its shares held in American depositary receipts (ADRs) on the New York Stock Exchange next month, it said on Monday.

Greek banks showed the strongest monthly decline in government debt holdings in 13 years in May, data from the European Central Bank showed on Monday.

Greek banks sold 4.840 billion euros in government debt in May after selling 256 million euros in April, marking the largest decline since August 2001.

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Retail sales in Greece rebounded in April, data showed on Monday, with Easter shopping helping to post the strongest rise in more than two years.

Retail sales by volume rose 7.3 percent year-on-year after a downwardly revised 1.2 percent drop in March, according to statistics service ELSTAT.

PODGORICA - The illusion that drug lord Darko Saric was hiding in Montenegro was maintained for years by someone in Serbia, Serbian Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic said on Monday.

LONDON - Serbia's Ana Ivanovic failed to reach the fourth round at Wimbledon by losing to Sabine Lisicki of Germany 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 on Monday.

The match was interrupted twice - first due to darkness on Sunday, and then due to rain on Monday.

BELGRADE - Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic and Greek Ambassador in Belgrade Konstantinos Ikonomidis agreed on Monday that it is in the interest of both countries to step up the political dialogue and improve relations even further.