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BELGRADE - Serbian Patriarch Irinej received at the Patriarchate on Wednesday authors and publishers of the book titled "Serbia in the Great War 1914-1918" which was released on the occasion of the centenary of the beginning of World War I.

BELGRADE – Officials of the City of Belgrade and the Chinese State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television signed in Belgrade Wednesday a memorandum on cooperation at this year’s Belgrade Book Fair, where China will be the Guest of Honor.

BELGRADE - The deficit in the Serbian budget in January this year was RSD 7 billion, the Ministry of Finance has stated.

Budget revenue was RSD 72.2 billion and expenditure RSD 79.2 billion.

This information does not include the revenue and expenditure of indirect budget users, the ministry said.

Tax revenue was RSD 65.3 billion and non-tax revenue was RSD 6.3 billion.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic stated on Wednesday that the government of Serbia advocates for dignified marking of the World War I centennial and accurate representation of historical facts.

BELGRADE - The price of the average consumer basket in Serbia in December 2013 totalled RSD 65,025 or 1.28 average wages while the minimum consumer basket totalled RSD 33,919 or 0.67 average wages, the data of the Ministry of Trade show.

BELGRADE, Feb 19 (Tanjug) – The deadline for the submission of bids for the first stage of works to overhaul and modernize the Belgrade Central railway station has been extended to February 28 because of a large number of companies interested in tendering, Serbian Railways General Director Dragoljub Simonovic told Tanjug on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - Representatives of the U.S.-based National Cash Register (NCR) Corporation announced in the talks with Ivica Dacic, Serbia's outgoing prime minister, on Wednesday that the Corporation plans to extend its activities in Serbia and invest an additional USD 320 million in the next four years.

BELGRADE - "Zivan Makes a Punk Festival", a feature-length documentary by Ognjen Glavonic, will have its international premiere at the festival Cinema Du Reel in Paris next month, the young director told Tanjug on Wednesday.

BELGRADE – Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said during a meeting Wednesday with a delegation of National Cash Register (NCR), a U.S.-based company, that favorable conditions for attracting foreign investors have been created over the past two years and the time has come to use the advantages of such a business climate.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Prime Minister Ivica Dacic met on Wednesday with a delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe tasked with observing the election in Serbia.

Dacic believes the snap parliamentary poll will be well organized and fair.