Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Dacic, who is also minister of foreign affairs, is on an official visit to Italy from Thursday, and is scheduled to take part in a trilateral meeting of the foreign ministers of Serbia, Italy and Albania in Rome on Friday.

"Urgent ceasefire needed in eastern Ukraine"

BELGRADE -- Ivica Dacic met in Belgrade on Tuesday with Russian Ambassador to Serbia Aleksandr Chepurin to discuss "OSCE's engagement in resolving the Ukraine crisis."

The Serbian foreign minister currently serves as OSCE's chairperson-in-office.

Serbia expresses "full solidarity" with Nigeria

BELGRADE -- The Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs extended on Friday its deepest condolences to the federal government and people of Nigeria.

The condolences were sent "especially to families of the late and displaced people from the city of Baga."

NOVI SAD - Third Serbia called on Croatia on Sunday, requesting release for young Serbs arrested in Vukovar, and appealed the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a request for it to react adequately and address to the EU and UN institutions and ask them to try and exert influence on Croatia.

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic and Serbian Foreign Minister and OSCE Chair Ivica Dacic will take part in the solidarity march in Paris on Sunday which will be organised in response to the terrorist attack on the editorial of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic conferred on Friday with Russian Ambassador in Belgrade Alexander Chepurin over the beginning of Serbia's OSCE presidency.

During the talks, officials underscored the willingness of the two countries to cooperate on all relevant issues of importance for the OSCE work.

FM discusses "OSCE cooperation" with Russian envoy

BELGRADE -- Ivica Dacic conferred on Friday with Russian Ambassador in Belgrade Aleksandr Chepurin about the beginning of Serbia's OSCE presidency.

BELGRADE - Kosovo Foreign Minister Hasim Taci's statement about Serbia's expansionist mentality is a political provocation and utter hypocrisy, says Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic.

Dacic: Pristina does not know what it wants

BELGRADE -- Ivica Dacic has said Hashim Thaci's statement shows that Pristina "does not know what it wants - dialogue or blind acceptance of what they want."

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic met with South Korea's new ambassador to Belgrade Lee Do-hoon on Friday to discuss improvement of political dialogue and boosting cooperation between the two countries in all areas.