Ministry of Foreign Affairs

BELGRADE - The Serbian Foreign Ministry denies allegations about it not allowing the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina to be presented at a forthcoming conference of European regions at Serbia's Mission to the EU in Brussels.

BELGRADE/GENEVA - Ivica Dacic, Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, has conferred with Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, in Geneva, and informed him about the position and problems of refugees from Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina in Serbia and of over 200,000 internally displaced persons from Kosovo-Metohija.

GENEVA - Serbia is the country with the largest number of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Europe, which is why it needs international assistance, Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic said at the 65th session of the Executive Committee of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva on Tuesday.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has rejected a proposal to acquire an island drifting across the Pacific Ocean.

It has described the 30 000 km territory, which is roughly the size of Belgium, as "movable property" and "an artificial floating object".

NEW YORK/BELGRADE - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic and his Kyrgyz counterpart Erlan Abdyldaev agreed on Thursday that the states should work on improving bilateral relations.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic met on Friday with Croatian Ambassador to Serbia Gordan Markotic and discussed future political dialogue and better cooperation, especially in EU integration and economy.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic met on Friday with head of a European Parliament delegation and committee for stabilisation and association Eduard Kukan to discuss Serbia's cooperationn with the European Parliament.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) has finalized, on Tuesday, the list of polling stations established abroad for the upcoming presidential election, with 294 such polling stations following to be prepared for Romanian citizens outside the country borders who wish to exercise their right to vote on this occasion, a press release remitted to AGERPRES by MAE informs.

BELGRADE - Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic received Friday Slovakia's Ambassador in Belgrade Jan Varso, who handed him a letter of invitation for a meeting of foreign ministers of the Visegrad Group member states and Western Balkan countries in Bratislava on October 31.

BELGRADE - Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic met in Belgrade Thursday with U.S. Ambassador to Serbia Michael Kirby, the Serbian Foreign Ministry said in a release.

Dacic and Kirby discussed bilateral issues, European integration of Serbia and the process of normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina.