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SKOPJE - Macedonia fully supports Serbia's Chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov said Wednesday in a meeting with Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic in Skopje.

PODGORICA/BELGRADE Feb 18 (Tanjug) - Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, has said in Podgorica that as holder of the OSCE chairmanship, Serbia would like to see Montenegro become a member of the European Union as soon as possible.

BELGRADE - Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, said in Podgorica Tuesday that as holder of the OSCE chairmanship, Serbia wishes Montenegro to become a member of the European Union as soon as possible.

Serbian FM, in his OSCE role, "calls for restraint"

BELGRADE -- Ivica Dacic has "strongly urged all sides to refrain from any action that might endanger the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine that came into effect on February 15."

Serbia's foreign minister made the statement in his capacity as chairman-in-office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

BELGRADE - The Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Serbia's foreign minister Ivica Dacic, has strongly urged all sides to refrain from any action that might endanger the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine that came into effect on February 15, 2015.

Serbia wants "closest possible" cooperation with Macedonia

SKOPJE -- Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov received on Monday in Skopje Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic.

According to Vucic, quoted by Tanjug, "it is important for Serbia and Macedonia to discuss joint projects."

BELGRADE - Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic met with a delegation of the German Bundestag Thursday, letting them know about the essence of a deal on judiciary issues reached in the latest round of Belgrade-Pristina talks in Brussels and stressing that many other important issues were still to be dealt with.

Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that the ceasefire in Ukraine was set to begin at midnight on February 15. The deal was announced after 17-hour negotiations among representatives of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine in Minsk, Belarus.

VIENNA - Dunja Mijatovic, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) representative on freedom of the media, said Wednesday she was pleased that the Serbian Chairmanship was "paying special attention to free media in the OSCE region and journalists' safety."

 Diplomats scrambled on Feb. 10 to finalise a peace deal for war-torn Ukraine ahead of a crunch summit in Minsk, with the warring sides pushing to gain ground ahead of any truce.