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VIENNA - OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Ivica Dacic, who is also Serbia's foreign minister, on Thursday urged all sides in the Ukrainian conflict to fully adhere to the Package of Measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements, noting that it is an opportunity to de-escalate the conflict and put an end to civilian casualties, and that Serbia is ready to assume the role of an honest broker

President receives Russian envoy in wake of deadly accident

BELGRADE -- President Tomislav Nikolic has asked for a thorough investigation to be carried out into a fire accident in Siberia that killed six Serbian workers.

Nikolic made the appeal during his meeting in Belgrade on Monday with Russian Ambassador Aleksandr Chepurin.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic called on Russian Ambassador in Belgrade Alexander Chepurin to carry out a thorough investigation about the fire in peninsula Yamal which claimed lives of six Serbian workers.

A workgroup in the Russian Duma will take the task of recalculating the reparations owed by Germany as a means of alleviating the consequences of World War II. The final result as stated will be presented to the German government.

BELGRADE - Head of the standing delegation of the Serbian National Assembly in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Aleksandra Djurovic stated on Friday that the issue of freedom of expression and protection of freedom of the media is not just one of the main obligations of any Council of Europe member country and also constitutes the foundation for any good democratic reg

BELGRADE - Member of the Serbian delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Aleksandar Senic said Thursday that further suspension of Russia's voting rights in this international body could weaken the position of Serbia regarding Kosovo's bid to join the Council of Europe (CE).

The 18-member Russian delegation is one the largest in the PACE.

The Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) decided on Wednesday to suspend its participation in the body until the end of the year.

The Russian boycott came after PACE passed a resolution earlier on Wednesday, which deprives Moscow of its voting rights until April 2015, the BBC reports.

STRASBOURG - Branko Lubarda, a professor of the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade, has been elected a judge of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) by a decision of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (CoE).

Lubarda teaches labour, international and social law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Ankara deputy Gülsün Bilgehan, has been elected as Chairperson of the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, becoming the first Turkish politician ever to be selected to the top post for a second time.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) elected Yonko Grozev as a judge to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in respect of Bulgaria on Tuesday.

Grozev was elected with an absolute majority for a non-renewable term of nine years, winning 108 out of the 202 votes that were cast in total.