Vladimir Djukanovic

BELGRADE - The head of Serbia's standing delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (NATO PA) Vladimir Djukanovic has sent a letter of protest to the body's President Michal Szczerba following announcements the status of the so-called Kosovo's assembly in the NATO PA could be promoted from observer to associate member, and noted that the Serbian parliament could reassess the purposefulness o

BELGRADE - The head of Serbia's parliamentary delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Vladimir Djukanovic said on Monday a decision by the body's standing committee to promote the status of the so-called Kosovo assembly from observer to associate member was scandalous and that he believed that, as a result, Serbia should stop participating in the organisation.

BELGRADE - Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) Presidency member Vladimir Djukanovic on Tuesday said new - not repeat - local elections would be held in Belgrade in case there was no majority in the city assembly.

Opposition representatives should show some proof of electoral fraud and irregularities, Djukanovic told Insajder TV.

Some of the Orthodox Templars are taking oath. Dusan Ivkovic and Stevan Djokic (first two on the left side), Nemanja Ristic (last on the right side). Photo: Facebook

As meetings of city and municipal committees of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, SNS, begin throughout Serbia, some SNS boards have voted to dismiss Defence Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic, until recently one of the closest allies of Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic.

A Serbian journalist who publicly confronted President Aleksandar Vucic with allegations of government corruption has found himself the target of a storm of criticism by presidential aides, allies and pro-government media after Vucic was hospitalised with heart problems hours after their exchange.

According to daily Blic source, at some point, dispute was caused by Miroslav Aleksic, Vice President of People's Party (NS), who spoke about media torture and the lack of media freedom.

Representatives of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party and opposition Alliance for Serbia met on Tuesday behind closed doors at the Belgrade's Faculty of Political Science, in the presence of NGOs, to discuss conditions for upcoming elections.

Minister Stefanovic stated that Aleksandar Vucic was wiretapped in the period from 1995 to 2000, and later on, from 2000 to 2003, and in a particularly insidious manner - from 2007 to 2012, without any court order or legally founded request, and sometimes by court order.

The chief prosecutor at the UN-backed Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, Serge Brammertz, told the UN Security Council in New York on Wednesday that comments by two Serbian politicians on last week's 24th anniversary of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide were intolerable.