Tomislav Nikolic

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will nominate the leader of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) Aleksandar Vucic as Prime Minister-designate in the new government, presidential advisor Stanislava Pak Stankovic said on Thursday.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic received Mexican Ambassador Mercedes Ruiz Zapata for a farewell visit on Wednesday.

Nikolic thanked the ambassdaor for helping develop the cooperation between two countries, adding that Serbia and Mexico had kept their relations friendly through all their difficulties.

"Germany expects Serbia to implement Brussels agreement"

BELGRADE -- German Ambassador Heinz Wilhelm says a possible change of the Serbian Constitution and adoption of a new Kosovo resolution was "an internal affair of Serbia."

He pointed out that his country was interested primarily in the implementation of the Brussels agreement.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will on Thursday meet with Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency member Nebojsa Radmanovic, the presidential press office has announced.

RUMA - President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman, accompanied by president of the Vojvodina government Bojan Pajtic, visited on Wednesday the Ruma-based agricultural and industrial tire factory, one of the key production facilities of the Czech Mitas company, which manufactures over 16,200 tons of tires annually and employs around 550 people.

President receives UralVagonZavod delegation

BELGRADE -- President Tomislav Nikolić has met with a delegation of UralVagonZavod (UVZ) to discuss the company's interest in further business operations in Serbia.

These including the Smederevo-based steel mill Železara, it was said after the meeting in Belgrade on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic talked in Belgrade on Wednesday with a delegation of Russia's UralVagonZavod (UVZ) about the company's interest in further business operations in Serbia, including the Smederevo-based steel mill.

BELGRADE- Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will meet on Wednesday with OAO NPK UralVagonZavod CEO Sienko Oleg Viktorovich, company director Lizin Yuri Igorevich and director of UVZ International SARL Demin Constantin Yorlevich.

The president's office for media relations said the meeting would be held at the president's general secretariat and would be followed by a statement.

BELGRADE - The presidents of Serbia and the Czech Republic, Tomislav Nikolic and Milos Zeman respectively, agreed on Tuesday that relations between the two countries are marked by a long-standing friendship, and Nikolic noted that it is particularly important to Serbia that Prague supports the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and opposes further conditioning of Serbia along the EU path.

BELGRADE - President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman arrived on an two-day official visit to Serbia and immediately met with President Tomislav Nikolic on Tuesday.

Nikolic greeted Zeman and the Czech delegation he leads in front of the Palace of Serbia with full state honors, after which the two presidents started a tete-a-tete meeting.