Serb National Council

ZAGREB,- Serbian FM Ivica Dacic met with his Croatian counterpart Gordan Grlic Radman in Zagreb on Friday.

They met at the Westin Zagreb hotel after a Christmas reception hosted there by the Serb National Council and its President Milorad Pupovac.

ZAGREB - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said on Friday in Zagreb dialogue on equal grounds and with mutual respect was the path to a resolution of open issues between Serbia and Croatia.

At a Christmas reception hosted by the Serb National Council, Dacic said his message was that the two countries should try to find a common interest even when they did not think alike.

ZAGREB - The president of Croatia's Serb National Council, Milorad Pupovac, who is also the leader of the Independent Democratic Serb Party, signed with Serbian Human Rights Minister Tomislav Zigmanov, who is also the leader of the Democratic Alliance of Croats in Vojvodina, a declaration on cooperation between Serbs in Croatia and Croats in Serbia.

Croatian Serb advocacy orgnisations and other human rights organisations on Wednesday started a six-day campaign to commemorate the Serbian civilian victims of the Croatian army's 1995 Operation "Oluja" ("Storm").

The operation terminated an ethnic Serb rebellion but also resulted in some 200,000 Serbs being expelled or fleeing the Knin region in southwest Croatia.

ZAGREB - Croatia is your home country, Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic said in her address at a meeting of the Grand Assembly of the Serb National Council (SNV) in Zagreb on Tuesday.

"I am glad to be able to greet you here this evening as your president," she said.

"Russian-Serbian relations, based on old traditions of friendship and spiritual closeness, are at a high level. Political dialogue and fruitful cooperation are expanding in different areas," Putin said in a letter sent to President Aleksandar Vucic on the occasion of February 15, Serbia's Statehood Day.

He met and spoke with ethnic Serbs there, and visited a local elementary school, to which he presented a gift - 11 laptop computers.

Tanjug is reporting that police increased their presence along the route Vucic's delegation traveled today.

Vrginmost was a place of suffering of Serbs, both in the Second World War and in during the war in the 1900s.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met on Friday with President of the Serb National Council in Croatia Milorad Pupovac.

According to the Serbian government, they discussed "the current situation of Serbs in Croatia."

Serb National Council (SNV) in Croatia President Milorad Pupovac says he will file a criminal complaint against A-HSP party leader Drazen Keleminec.

Pupovac said he will do so because Keleminec made threats against him, and in case Croatia's prosecution fails to act first.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic on Monday received representatives of Montenegrin Serb parliamentary parties and cultural institutions, who conveyed concern over the position of the country's Serbs.

The delegation, headed by New Serb Democracy President Andrija Mandic, made concrete proposals how the Serbian government could help Serbs in Montenegro.