Central European Free Trade Agreement

SKOPJE - Serbian PM Milos Vucevic said on Monday in Skopje it was good Pristina had lowered long-running tensions by lifting a ban on products from central Serbia at the Merdare administrative crossing but that regular supplies of food and medicines for Serbs in the Autonomous Province of Kosovo-Metohija were the most important matter.

BELGRADE- Serbian PM Milos Vucevic says there are indications Pristina could lift its ban on goods from central Serbia.

BELGRADE - Besides being politically significant and boosting Serbia's reputation, Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Belgrade is very important economically as well and opens up new prospects for Serbia and a new chapter in its cooperation with China as well as its overall growth and development, Serbian Finance Minister Sinisa Mali said on Thursday.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Internal and External Trade Tomislav Momirovic said on Tuesday he had written to the trade ministers of EU member states, the UK, the US and CEFTA to warn, for a third time in a year, that Pristina's ban on trade in Serbian goods remained in force in Kosovo-Metohija.

SKOPJE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday Pristina's ban on trade in Serbian goods and an announcement it would stop payment transactions with central Serbia was a "hysterical attack" on Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija and that he had discussed this with US Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia James O'Brien.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will be in Skopje, North Macedonia, on January 21-22 for a summit of the Open Balkan initiative and a Western Balkans-EU summit on the EU Growth Plan for the region, the presidential press office announced in a statement on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - Serbia took over the one-year Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) presidency from Montenegro on Monday, and its Minister of Internal and External Trade Tomislav Momirovic expects to see Pristina's ban on Serbian goods end in 2024.

BELGRADE - Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina are the two main CEFTA member states and their bilateral trade volume totalled 3.2 bln euros last year, Serbian Minister of Internal and External Trade Tomislav Momirovic said after a meeting with his Bosnian and Herzegovinian counterpart Stasa Kosarac on Monday.

PODGORICA - Serbian Minister of Internal and External Trade Tomislav Momirovic said on Thursday Serbia would chair the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) association in 2024.

TIRANA - Representatives of Western Balkan countries, including Serbian PM Ana Brnabic, signed in Tirana on Tuesday an agreement on mutual recognition of professional qualifications of nurses, veterinary doctors, pharmacists and midwives.