News archive of September 2023

BELGRADE - The head coach of the Serbia men's national football team Dragan Stojkovic on Tuesday announced a preliminary squad list for the EURO 2024 qualifiers in October.

Serbia face Hungary in Budapest on October 14 and host Montenegro at the Rajko Mitic Stadium in Belgrade on October 17.

The preliminary squad list is:

BELGRADE, Sept 26 (Tanjug) - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met with newly-appointed Cypriot Ambassador to Belgrade Andreas Fotiou on Tuesday, thanking him for Cyprus's consistent respect of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Serbia.

American companies rank fourth among direct foreign investors in Bulgaria, said Olivier Marquette, president of the American Chamber of Commerce (ACC) in Bulgaria, during a business breakfast organized by the Chamber with the participation of Prime Minister Academician Nikolai Denkov, government ministers and ACC members.

Romania plans to buy 32 latest-generation F-35 fighter jets from US manufacturer Lockheed Martin for 6.5 billion dollars, the defense ministry announced on Tuesday. 

Bucharest increased its defense spending to 2.5 percent of gross domestic product this year from 2 percent last year in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Orlin Rusev, Biser Jambazov, Katrin Ivanova, Ivan Stoyanov and Vanya Gaberova, accused of conspiracy to carry out espionage in Great Britain for the benefit of Russia, remain in the prisons where they are.

The Bulgarian government's intention to provide Ukraine with defective missiles for the S-300 missile complexes will not endanger the Bulgarian air defense.

PRISTINA - Two more Serbs suspected of involvement in Sunday's deadly clashes between a group of local Serbs and the so-called Kosovo Police in the Banjska village near Zvecan in the north of Kosovo-Metohija were placed in one-month custody by the basic court in Pristina on Tuesday.

Pristina-based Reporteri said the two were Blagoje Spasojevic and Dusan Maksimovic.

BELGRADE - The chairman of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija Milovan Drecun said on Tuesday recent deadly clashes in the north of Kosovo-Metohija were a result of horrible terror wreaked by the regime of Pristina's PM Albin Kurti.

Speaking to the RTS, Drecun said Kurti would not only continue but also escalate the terror under the pretext of investigations.

The same source claims that the action of Ukrainian soldiers was carried out on the basis of a tip from intelligence officers, Ukrainska Pravda reports.
A video showing the moment when the object was hit, after which a dense cloud of dust began to rise, also appeared on social networks.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday he had had an important discussion with representatives of Quint states in one of the most difficult moments for Serbia and that he had requested that Kfor take over care of all security issues in the north of Kosovo-Metohija from the so-called Kosovo Police.