Veljko Odalovic

BELGRADE- Former Yugoslav diplomatic and consular offices in New York, Bonn, Bern and Tokyo, worth USD 70-80 million, are to be put up for sale, with Serbia to receive around USD 35 million of the total.

The bodies of Jovica Stepic and Sladjana Stankovic, the Serbian embassy employees killed in a U.S. air strike in Libya, should be transferred to Serbia Monday.

General Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Veljko Odalovic, who has arrived in Libya, made the announcement.

There is no information that Serbian embassy employees kidnapped in Libya are in the hands of Islamic State, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs official has said.

Veljko Odalovic spoke for state broadcaster RTS late on Thursday to say that Serbian authorities are in contact with those in Tripoli, "and are receiving guarantees from there that the kidnapped Serbians are alive."

A state secretary with the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday he expects the case of two kidnapped Serbians in Libya to be solved.

The Serbian foreign ministry on Sunday set up a crisis response team after the two employees of the country's embassy in Tripoli, Sladjana Stankovic and Jovica Stepic, were abducted near the Libyan town of Sabrath.

The ministry said the Libyan authorities have located the abductors who it said are still in Sabrath, and arrested one of them, although the two Serbs remain missing.

BELGRADE - The Council for National Minorities on Wednesday held a constitutive session, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State Administration and Local Self-Government Kori Udovicki.

Serbia can say with pride that it represents a multi-ethnic community with around 30 national communities, Udovicki said at the session.

BELGRADE - Secretary General of the Serbian Foreign Ministry Veljko Odalovic said Tuesday that the ICTY is not up to the task assigned to it, stressing that Serbia should not be held accountable for things that are not its fault or responsibility.

MOSCOW - Six workers from Serbia died in a fire that broke out at a building site on the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia, and three were injured, Serbian Ambassador in Moscow Slavenko Terzic has said.

Six Serbian workers die in accident in Siberia

BELGRADE -- The Russian media have published the names of the Serbians who died in a fire in Siberia, but the authorities in Belgrade are waiting for official confirmation.

BELGRADE - The talks in Brussels between Belgrade and Pristina should not have the Mining, Metallurgical and Chemical Combine Trepca for a topic, but Serbia's entire property in Kosovo, Secretary General of the Serbian Foreign Ministry Veljko Odalovic said on Tuesday.