News archive of February 2023

BELGRADE - Air Serbia will commence direct flights between Belgrade and Tel Aviv on April 6, the airline announced on Monday.

"Airbus A319 aircraft of the national airline will be flying between the capital of Serbia and Ben Gurion Airport three times a week - on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays," it said in a statement.

ABU DHABI - Serbia is in talks with France about purchasing Raphale multirole fighters, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said at the IDEX 2023 arms fair in Abu Dhabi on Monday, noting that, if agreed, the purchase would be the country's biggest military budget expenditure yet.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met with Chinese Ambassador to Belgrade Chen Bo on Monday to discuss continued development of bilateral political, economic and external trade ties.

ABU DHABI - As part of a working visit to the UAE, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Monday visited the G42 Institute in Abu Dhabi and held a meeting with the company's representatives.

G42 is a leading AI and cloud computing development company that has operations in the UAE, Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.

ABU DHABI - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday Serbian arms were attracting great interest at the IDEX 2023 international arms fair in Abu Dhabi.

NIS - Red Star Belgrade won the Serbian basketball cup by beating Mega 96-79 (22-23, 29-21, 27-21, 18-14) in the competition's final in Nis late on Saturday.

Red Star won their third consecutive and ninth overall Radivoj Korac Cup, as well as their 12th national cup title in club history.

BELGRADE - The Serbian dinar's official median exchange rate against the euro is 117.3197 dinars for one euro on Monday, which is a slight change from Friday, the National Bank of Serbia said.

The dinar is steady against the euro m-o-m and up by 0.2 pct y-o-y.

MUNICH - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday in Munich Serbia was in possession of a new note of derecognition of the unilaterally declared independence of the so-called Kosovo.

"But we have an agreement with that country to wait until February 23 or 24, or for about ten days, after which we will announce the name of that country," Vucic told Pink TV.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Friday.

BELGRADE - The Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade on Friday requested custody for two men suspected of calling for a violent overthrowing of authorities and the president of the Republic of Serbia.

At hearings earlier in the day, the suspects, identified as Damnjan K, 34, and Dejan Z, 53, denied that they had committed any criminal offence, an official statement said.