Francois-Xavier Deniau

BELGRADE - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic met outgoing French Ambassador Francois-Xavier Deniau on Friday and the two agreed that the dialogue between the two countries had improved.

Serbia and France are linked by a tradition of friendship, and their relations are intensive, they said.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic received on Thursday French Ambassador Francois-Xavier Deniau whose term of office in Serbia is coming to an end, the government's press office stated in a release.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic held separate meetings on Tuesday with outgoing ambassadors of France and Hungary, Francois-Xavier Deniau and Oszkar Nikowitz, respectively.

BELGRADE - French Ambassador to Serbia Francois-Xavier Deniau said on Monday 2014 had so far been marked by improving top-level political relations between Serbia and France, adding that the French government saw Serbia as its future partner in the EU.

BELGRADE - French Ambassador to Serbia Francois-Xavier Deniau laid a wreath at the Monument of Gratitude to France in Belgrade on Monday, marking July 14, a national holiday in France.

BELGRADE - France promotes intensification of cooperation with Western Balkan countries and supports Serbia's European integration process, the Serbian Defence Ministry released on Friday, after the meeting between Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic and French Ambassador to Belgrade Francois-Xavier Deniau.

"Friendship with French forged in heroism"

BELGRADE -- "The friendship between the Serbs and the French, forged in the heroism of World War I, has gone through various temptations," says Tomislav Nikolić.

BELGRADE - The friendship between the Serbs and the French, forged in the heroism of World War I, has gone through various temptations, but attempts to provide different interpretations of facts from the two countries' common past must not be allowed to reopen the gap between them, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has said.

BELGRADE - The regional donor conference for rebuilding the flood-hit areas, to be organised by France in collaboration with the EU, will be held in July, French Ambassador to Serbia Francois-Xavier Deniau has announced.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Zorana Mihajlovic met with French Ambassador to Serbia Francois-Xavier Deniau on Tuesday to discuss cooperation between the two countries in the areas of infrastructure and transport, as well as activities to be undertaken in reconstruction efforts in flood-hit regions in Serbia.