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VLASINA LAKE/SURDULICA - Ecotourism offers a chance for Serbia, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic said at Vlasina Lake on Wednesday, adding that the country wishes to position tourism into an important economic sector.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic is in New York, attending a two-day meeting of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), where he met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN Development Programme Administrator Helen Clark on Monday.

BELGRADE - Vice President of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) Nebojsa Stefanovic announced that the session of the SNS Main Board would be held on Tuesday and expressed the expectation that economic expert Kori Udovicki would get a seat in some of economy-related ministries.

BELGRADE - Forty-two percent of the people in Serbia believe that women are the population group that is exposed to discrimination the most in Serbia, according to the 4th annual opinion poll organized by the commissioner for protection of equality.