Belgrade Assembly

BELGRADE - At Serbia's main state ceremony that commemorated WWI Armistice Day, wreaths were laid at the Memorial Ossuary of WWI Defenders of Belgrade at the capital's New Cemetery on Monday.

BELGRADE - The Higher Court in Belgrade on Thursday rejected the last complaint to the consolidated report on the results of the elections for the City of Belgrade Assembly, held on December 17 and repeated at three polling stations on December 30.

This means the electoral process is now complete, the city authorities said in a statement.

Nenad Milanovic, the chief of staff of Belgrade mayor Aleksandar Sapic, offered representatives of Turkish company Kentkart a new contract for public transport maintenance and improvement of the system for collecting tickets and managing vehicles in the city if they agree to the mutual termination of an existing contract, according to audio recordings obtained by BIRN from two meetings held in

Serbian officials held commemorations on Friday in memory of the civilians who were killed during NATO's bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999, a military intervention that ended the Kosovo war.

Serbia's ruling party, the Serbian Progressive Party, SNS, won the most votes of any party in Sunday's election for the Belgrade Assembly, but it is still not clear who will eventually form a new city government.

Hopes have faded for the opposition parties ahead of Sunday's elections in both Serbia and Hungary with longtime rulers Viktor Orban and Aleksandar Vucic poised to win.

The Democratic Party will mark the anniversary of democratic changes in Serbia with an exhibition at the party premises in Vracar that will be attended by its leader Zoran Lutovac, the president of the New Party, Zoran Zivkovic. and the president of the Social Democratic Party, Boris Tadic.

Slobodan Milosevic could get a monument, street or square in Belgrade, writes Serbian daily "Vecernje Novosti". On the initiative of the honorary president of the SPS, Milutin Mrkonjic, on Friday, a group of about twenty young party activists and representatives of the citizens' association "Sloboda" submitted such request to the City Hall of the City Assembly.

According to Bozovic, he sent a letter to the members of the City Board in which he stated that "the defeat in the elections for the Belgrade Assembly obligates everyone to bear their own responsibility in the name of the future of the DS".

Belgrade Assembly to open doors to visitors

BELGRADE -- The City Assembly building - the Old Palace in downtown Belgrade - will be open to visitors every Saturday starting in April.

The announcement was made by the head of the city secretariat for the economy, Tijana Maljkovic.

Visitors will be able to tour the building starting at 10 am, and at noon, she told Tanjug.