Serbian Ministry of Defence

SKOPJE- Serbia is committed to develop friendly relations with North Macedonia and countries in the region in line with mutual interests at regional and global level, Serbian Defence Minister Milos Vucevic said during a conversation with North Macedonian counterpart Slavjanka Petrovska in Skopje on Friday.

BELGRADE - Serbian military police have arrested two male US nationals and two female Ukrainian nationals for attempting to make footage of the former army general headquarters building using a drone.

BELGRADE - Serbian and Paraguayan Defence Ministers Aleksandar Vulin and Diogenes Martinez met in Belgrade Monday to discuss the capacities of the Serbian defence industry and the current political and security situation in the world and in the region, the Serbian Ministry of Defence said.

BELGRADE - All eight Serbian Armed Forces troops serving in the MONUSCO peacekeeping mission in DR Congo are safe and performing their duties normally, the Serbian Ministry of Defence said in the wake of Friday's attack on the UN mission, in which at least 14 peacekeepers were killed and another 53 wounded.

ARANDJELOVAC - The 2018 budget of the Serbian Ministry of Defence will be up by 25 pct, with most of the funds to go to a salary increase for the armed forces personnel, Defence Minister Aleksandar Vulin said on Wednesday.

The salary increase will amount to 10 pct, Vulin said.

MOSCOW - Pilots of the Serbian Air Force and Air Defence and the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces on Wednesday kicked off BARS 2017, their third joint flight and tactical exercise.

This year, BARS is held at the Lipetsk-2 airport in the city of Lipetsk, 500 km southeast of Moscow, the Serbian Ministry of Defence said in a statement.

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BELGRADE - Platinum Wolf 17, an international military exercise aimed at improving interoperability and mutual understanding among partner armed forces at tactical level in operations for supporting peace in a multinational environment, began at Base South on Monday, the Serbian Ministry of Defence said in a statement.

KRAGUJEVAC - The bodies of the three workers who had been reported missing since Tuesday's explosion at the military Technical Overhauling Institution in Kragujevac, central Serbia, were found on Thursday following an intensive search.

BELGRADE - Serbia has achieved progress in nearly all areas of the Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) with NATO, Brigadier General Slobodan Joksimovic from the Strategic Planning Department of the Serbian Ministry of Defence said Monday.

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BELGRADE - Serbia has achieved progress in nearly all areas of the Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) with NATO, Brigadier General Slobodan Joksimovic from the Strategic Planning Department of the Serbian Ministry of Defence said Monday.