Merdare

MERDARE - Freight trucks continue to queue up for kilometres at the Merdare administrative crossing, where the provisional Pristina authorities have recently allowed entry of ready-made products from central Serbia to the Autonomous Province of Kosovo-Metohija.

MERDARE - Pristina authorities arrested a Serb man at the Merdare administrative crossing last night for alleged spreading of racial and religious hatred, the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija said in a statement.

MERDARE - The Pristina authorities banned Serbian Patriarch Porfirije and seven bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church from entering Kosovo-Metohija on Monday.

MERDARE - Tanjug reporter Andjelko Utjesanovic was denied entry to Kosovo-Metohija by the so-called Kosovo Police at the Merdare administrative crossing on Wednesday afternoon.

Utjesanovic was to report on Serbian Patriarch Porfirije's visit to Serbian holy sites in Kosovo-Metohija.

MERDARE - Patriarch Porfirije of the Serbian Orthodox Church on Wednesday began a visit to Kosovo-Metohija, where he will celebrate Christmas with Serbs living in the province.

Accompanied by a delegation of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the patriarch will first visit the Patriarchate of Pec and then also Visoki Decani, Gracanica and other monasteries.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic on Tuesday received European Commissioner for Transport Violeta Bulc, highlighting the significance of transport projects for the development of Serbia and noting a commitment to establishing cooperation aimed at connecting the entire Western Balkans through a transport network.

BELGRADE - The project documentation for the motorway connecting Nis, Merdare and Pristina will be done in early 2017, with construction itself slated to be completed by 2020, Serbian Deputy PM and Minister of Construction and Transport Zorana Mihajlovic said Tuesday.

BELGRADE - The project documentation for the motorway connecting Nis, Merdare and Pristina will be done in early 2017, with construction itself slated to be completed by 2020, Serbian Deputy PM and Minister of Construction and Transport Zorana Mihajlovic said Tuesday.

The project documentation for a highway connecting Nis, Merdare and Pristina will be done in early 2017.

Construction itself slated to be completed by 2020, Serbian Deputy PM and Minister of Construction and Transport Zorana Mihajlovic said on Tuesday.

MERDARE - Serbia will know how to protect its people and territory, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic stated on Sunday during the visit to the Merdare base, adding that the Gendarmerie will get new equipment so that they could perform their tasks with maximum efficiency and with added protection.