Rasim Ljajic

BELGRADE - Rasim Ljajic was on Monday elected president of an interim authority at Serbian football club Partizan Belgrade, the club Assembly announced after a meeting.

BELGRADE - Social Democratic Party of Serbia leader Rasim Ljajic said on Monday lithium had become an "absolutely dominant" political topic.

The lawyer pointed out that the court was guided in the verdict by "previously established facts".

A truck carrying medical supplies reached Serbia on June 12 from Turkey.

The aid will help the country combat the coronavirus pandemic.

The supplies were sent by Turkey's Health Ministry and Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK) upon the directives of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has become a direct part of a campaign to attract tourists from China, with his photo on posters inviting Chinese people to visit Serbia, as a part of broader campaign of promoting Serbia in the country.

The beginning of the meeting was announced earlier at 11 o'clock, and in addition to the President of Serbia, Prime Minister Ana Brnabic and members of the government, the meeting was also attended by representatives of all services involved in the fight against coronavirus.

The list holder, with about 50.000 signatures collected in a few hours, is the SNS leader Aleksandar Vucic, and the first on the list is the Minister of Agriculture Branislav Nedimovic.

Finance Minister Christos Staikouras on Monday expressed concerns about the potential impact on the economy from the new coronavirus outbreak, which made its appearance in Greece last week, but said that steps are being taken to contain it from spreading further.

Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic on Friday signed a free trade deal with the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union, EAEU, in Moscow, after the EU warned that it will closely monitor such relations, as Serbia is a candidate for joining the European Union.

Beside Brnabic, the deal was signed by the Prime Ministers of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia.

The official launch of direct Belgrade-Cairo flights was on Thursday attended by Serbian Deputy PM and Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic, Egyptian Ambassador to Belgrade Amr Aljowaily and Air Serbia CEO Duncan Naysmith, the Egyptian embassy in Belgrade said in a statement.