News archive of September 2023

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic met on Thursday with Tino Chrupalla, Alternative for Germany (AfD) whip in the German Bundestag.

The parties agreed the level of Serbia-Germany bilateral ties was high and noted the significance of political dialogue involving all relevant political actors, the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic met with Danish counterpart Lars Lokke Rasmussen in Belgrade on Thursday, and said Serbia was advocating preservation of peace and prevention of loss of life in Kosovo-Metohija and called for an objective assessment of the situation there.

BELGRADE - Serbian Defence Minister Milos Vucevic on Thursday attended the signing of five contracts between the Ministry of Defence and Jugoimport-SDPR on acquisition and modernisation of 92 complex combat platforms worth a total of approx. 13.5 bln dinars for the Serbian Armed Forces.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with Danish FM Lars Lokke Rasmussen on Thursday and informed him of developments in Kosovo-Metohija, noting that the situation there was the most complicated and the most dangerous to date.

BELGRADE, Sept 28 (Tanjug) - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Thursday the Eulex mission had not been allowed to take part in an investigation following last weekend's clashes in Banjska in the north of Kosovo-Metohija because Pristina wanted to hide that the Serbs killed in the clashes had been brutally murdered.

BELGRADE - Serbia attaches great significance to its relations with Cyprus, which are based on firm friendship, mutual trust and historically proven closeness and solidarity between the two peoples, Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said at a meeting with a delegation of Cyprus's House of Representatives on Thursday.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday evening Belgrade could achieve more in the dialogue with Pristina through discussions with the US than through discussions with the EU.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced on Wednesday evening parliamentary and provincial elections as well as local elections in Belgrade and some municipalities in Serbia would be held simultaneously and that the ruling Serbian Progressive Party was ready for December 17 as the most likely election date.

Vucic said this in an interview for the RTS.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday evening Pristina's PM Albin Kurti was systematically destroying the Serb population in Kosovo-Metohija, and added that Serbs there were "going through hell".

BELGRADE - The Serbian dinar's official median exchange rate against the euro is 117.2056 dinars for one euro on Thursday, which is a slight change from Wednesday, the National Bank of Serbia said.

The dinar is steady against the euro m-o-m and up by 0.1 pct y-o-y and relative to the beginning of the year.