Didier Burkhalter

BERLIN - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier will host a joint dinner for Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic and OSCE Chairman-in-Office Didier Burkhalter at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin on Wednesday, the German Federal Foreign Office has said in a release.

FM, German ambassador discuss OSCE activities

BELGRADE -- Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dačić met with German Ambassador to Serbia Heinz Wilhelm in Belgrade on Thursday.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic met with German Ambassador to Serbia Heinz Wilhelm in Belgrade Thursday to discuss issues the work of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) before Serbia takes over the OSCE chairmanship on January 1, 2015.

Switzerland will give Bulgaria a total of CHF 76 M (EUR 63 M) to work toward the reduction of economic and social inequality.

The Swiss grants were confirmed late on Monday, the first day of President Rosen Plevneliev's visit to the country, the news website blick.ch reports, citing the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (EDA).

Bulgaria is to launch a pilot project to incorporate elements of the Swiss dual education system, President Rosen Plevneliev announced.

Plevneliev is on a two-day visit to Switzerland, where he met counterpart Didier Burkhalter, the Swiss president for 2014.

Bulgaria's President Rosen Plevneliev will go on an official visit to Switzerland on October 13-14, the press center of the President's Office announced.

HELSINKI - OSCE chairmanship is a great honour for Serbia in the year to mark the 40 anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act, but this moment comes at a very difficult time for Europe, Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said in Helsinki.

NEW YORK - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has said that Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had told him Russian President Vladimir Putin would visit Belgrade for the 70th anniversary of the city's liberation from German occupation.

NEW YORK - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic met on Thursday with Swiss President and Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter to discuss the OSCR's role in solving the Ukrainian crisis.

The chief topic of the meeting was Serbia's presidency of the OSCR in 2015 and the takeover from Switzerland, the curerently presiding country.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is due to meet Austrian head of state Heinz Fischer in Vienna.

OMV and Gazprom officials are expected to seal deals on the South Stream pipeline during his visit, daily Die Presse reveals, citing high-profile sources.