Serbia's Foreign Ministry

Turkey will soon open a consulate in Serbia's southern city of Nis, the Turkish envoy to Belgrade said on Sept. 24. 

The consulate will serve Turkish citizens and bolster the country's commercial, economic and cultural interests in the region, Ambassador Hami Aksoy told Anadolu Agency.

Miroslav Lazanski, the Serbian ambassador to Russia, has suddenly died, Serbia's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

Lazanski was appointed ambassador to Moscow in June 2019. He had been an MP in parliament since June 2016, elected on the ruling Serbian Progressive Party's list as a non-party person.

Ukraine security service official Igor Guskov told Ukrainian television on Friday that at least seven Serbian mercenaries were fighting in eastern Ukraine as part of a private Russian military unit, called Wagner, one of whom was now dead.

Serbia's Foreign Ministry protested on Wednesday over the "provocative definition" of the jurisdiction of the Turkish Embassy in Serbia on the Turkish Foreign Ministry website.

It said the Turkish ambassador to Belgrade Mehmet Kemal Bozay had been summoned to the Foreign Ministry where he was handed a protest.

Serbia's Foreign Ministry has told Serbian tourists not to go on holiday in Tunisia, arguing that after the recent terror attack there, and the introduction of state of emergency on July 4, "the risk of new terrorist attacks" remains concerning.

Serbia's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday denied that the country's institutions had taken any part in monitoring and thus endorsing separatist elections in eastern Ukraine.

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