Tomislav Nikolic

BELGRADE - EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele arrived in Belgrade on Monday, with Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic receiving him at the start of his visit.

BELGRADE - EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele will visit Serbia on Monday and meet with the country's top officials.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will meet Fuele at the General Secretariat of the President of the Republic and the two will afterwards give statements for the media, the presidential press service has said.

VALJEVO - Bishop of Valjevo Milutin presented Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic with the medal of St Bishop Nikolaj in the monastery Lelic on Saturday for his efforts and care for Serbia and its people and for tireless work towards improving the relations between the government and the Serbian Orthodox Church.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has said that EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele's visit to Belgrade on Monday is important for the future of the accession talks between Serbia and the EU.

BELGRADE - EU High Representative and Vice President of the European Commission Catherine Ashton will address the Serbian parliament at a special meeting on Monday.

The meeting will start at 3:15 p.m. CET, according to the parliament.
Ashton will arrive in Serbia on Monday to meet with future prime minister Aleksandar Vucic and President Tomislav Nikolic.

BELGRADE - Students of the Belgrade and Banjaluka academies of arts performed the play "Veterans of the Salonica Front Speak" at the National Theatre in Belgrade late Saturday.

The play, based on a docudrama by Antonije Djuric and directed by Cisana Murusidze, is part of the official programme marking the centenary of the outbreak of World War I.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will meet with High EU Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton in Belgrade on Monday.

The meeting will take place in the Palace of Serbia, the president's press service released.

Photo Tanjug, N.Jovanovic

"Croatia wants to be a country where everyone has the opportunity to affirm their culture and tradition," Croatian President Ivo Josipovic said at Thursday's opening of the Serbian Cultural Centre in the town of Pula, on the tip of the Istrian peninsula.

"Croatia is ready to lend a hand to all people of goodwill, including friends from the Republic of Serbia," Josipovic said.

BELGRADE - Serbia will meet all the conditions for EU accession, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic stated on Thursday in the talks with Didier Burkhalter, president of the Swiss Confederation and the head of the country's Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said Thursday that Serbia will make no such moves as could destabilize Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) but it has an obligation under the Dayton Accord to care about the preservation of Republika Srpska (RS).