SAD - Serbian

NOVI SAD - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday the construction of a Novi Sad-Subotica high-speed rail line section - to be inaugurated on November 24 - was a "big thing" for entire Serbia and that he expected Hungary to complete its stretch of a Belgrade-Budapest line in two years' time.

NOVI SAD - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday the situation in the north of Kosovo-Metohija was very difficult and tense as Pristina was expected to try to elect false mayors for three Serb-majority municipalities on Friday.

NOVI SAD - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced on Thursday Japan's Nidec Corp would open a factory in Novi Sad in May.

Vucic was speaking to reporters after the opening of a Continental Automotive Serbia factory at Kac, near Novi Sad.