Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Dačić testifies in Galenika corruption case

BRUSSELS -- Foreign Minister and SPS party leader Ivica Dačić has confirmed that he was question as a witness on the Galenika corruption case.

BELGRADE – Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said Friday that in the first hundred days of the new government, Serbia has made a major breakthrough in foreign policy.

BELGRADE - Ivica Dacic, Serbia's first deputy prime minister and foreign minister, and newly appointed Chinese Ambassador to Serbia Li Manchang agreed on Thursday that relations between the two countries are excellent, showing a continuous improvement.

The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) informs that a person with dual citizenship, Romanian included, was on the list of the passengers on board the Boeing 777 aircraft downed in eastern Ukraine on Thursday.

Foreign Affairs Minister Titus Corlatean announced the activation of the crisis cell at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday night, after the crash of the Malaysian Airlines airliner in Ukraine.

BELGRADE – The Serbian Foreign Ministry said in a release Wednesday that it expected the “screening” of the acquis in the process of Serbia's accession to the European Union to be completed by March 2015.

Four Bulgarian nationals have been evacuated from the Gaza Strip, Bulgaria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced.

The Bulgarians contacted the embassy in Tel Aviv and the diplomatic office in Ramallah, which organized their evacuation on July 13.

BELGRADE - U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland will visit Serbia on Sunday, and the main topics of her talks with Serbia's officials will be the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and the implementation of the Brussels accord.

Nuland will talk with Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic in Belgrade on Suday, the president's press service announced.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic is participating in the 9th Croatia Forum 2014 which began in Dubrovnik on Thursday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs released.

The topic of this year's Forum is 'European Integration of the Western Balkans: State of Play.'

BELGRADE - A total of over EUR 2 million have so far been raised for flood victims through the designated account of the Serbian government, around EUR 700,000 via PayPal, while the total humanitarian aid that arrived in the country due to the May floods has been estimated at EUR 19.5 million, General Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Veljko Odalovic said on Thursday.