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NOVI SAD - The second International Festival of Contemporary Art entitled 'Danube Dialogues' will open in Novi Sad on Wednesday, gathering 85 artists and 12 art theoreticians from 14 countries in the Danube macro region.

PM travels to Berlin to attend conference

BELGRADE -- Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić will be in Germany today and on Thursday, where he will participate in a conference dedicated to the Western Balkans.

"Delicate moment" for OSCE chairmanship

SALZBURG -- Foreign Minister and First Deputy PM Ivica Dačić says Serbia will be taking over the chairmanship of the OSCE in a delicate and complicated moment for Europe.

He stressed that the participation of the OSCE in resolving the Ukrainian crisis was "further confirmation of the relevance and organization."

BERLIN - A conference focused on the Western Balkans will be held in Berlin on Thursday under German Chancellor Angela Merkel's patronage and it will include prime ministers, foreign ministers and ministers of economy from the region, with Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic among them.

VIENNA - Austria's Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurtz has said that Vienna sees this year's conference on the Western Balkans, held in Berlin, as the cornerstone of the EU's enlargement in the region.

The European peace project and the EU itself will not be complete without the Western Balkans, he stated.

ALPBACH, Austria - Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Lamberto Zannier believes that Serbia, next OSCE chair country, will be able to continue Switzerland’s efforts aimed at resolving the Ukraine crisis since it has both historical ties with eastern Slavic countries and deepening relations with the EU.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will go to Berlin on Wednesday, a day before a conference on the Western Balkans, and meet with Germany's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Sigmar Gabriel, the daily Kurir has reported.

The future of Moscow-backed South Stream gas project “is looking increasingly murky” amidst the East-West tensions over Ukraine, the FT’s energy editor Guy Chazan has opined.

"Serbia can be neutral mediator in crisis"

BELGRADE -- Lamberto Zannier believes that Serbia, as the next chairman of the OSCE, "will be able to continue Switzerland's efforts to resolve the crisis in Ukraine."

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic will attend the conference entitled '1814, 1914, 2014: Lessons from the Past, Visions for the Future' in Salzburg on Monday and Tuesday, the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs released.