Aleksandar Antić

Serbian Minister of Energy and Mining Aleksandar Antic said this in Croatia on Friday, where he is a member of the Serbian delegation attending a meeting of the Central and Eastern European Countries and China (16+1).

Serbia will not accept the European Union's opposition to the TurkStream pipeline extension project as it did when the Union opposed the South Stream project four years ago, the Serbian Minister of Energy and Mining Aleksandar Antic told Anadolu Agency on April 10.

The meeting will be held April 11-12 in Dubrovnik, the Serbian government has announced.

The Serbian government announced last week that the format of cooperation, "16 + 1," is "a comprehensive mechanism for high-level cooperation in the field of economy, especially infrastructure, as well as in agriculture, culture and media, science and technology, sports, IT sector and other fields."

Serbia is the country where China is implementing the largest number of infrastructure and energy projects, says Minister of Mining and Energy Aleksandar Antic.

According to the Serbian government, Antic said this was concluded during in a meeting between energy ministers of China and 16 countries of Central and Eastern Europe, held in Bucharest on Wednesday.

Government of Serbia announced the construction of new wind farms, and said that it will continue to provide incentives for the renewable energy sources.

The 150 kilometer-long gas interconnection between Bulgaria and Serbia is to be completed by 2018 so that gas could start flowing in 2019.

This announcement was made on Tuesday by Serbian Minister of Energy ad Mining Aleksandar Antic.

Antić: I will keep this helmet, it saved my life Video

Minister of Energetics Aleksandar Antić had an accident yesterday that could easily end tragically, when an icicle fell on his head in Majdanpek.

- I am very happy because everything went well - Antić stated for "Blic."

PM: Abandoning of South Stream bad news

BELGRADE -- Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said that announcements about the scrapping of the South Stream project were "not good news for Serbia."

Speaking in Israel, where he is on an official visit, Vucic said Serbia was "loyal to this project."

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Energy and Mining Aleksandar Antic said Tuesday that in the following few months, Serbia could make a decision to start the construction of a Thermal Power Plant (TPP) Stavalj and expand and build new mines in the complex, which should be implemented in cooperation with partners from the Czech Republic.