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BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Parliament Speaker Elvira Kovac received Hungarian Ambassador to Belgrade Jozsef Magyar on Friday, thanking Hungary for being the only European country to vote against a UN General Assembly resolution on Srebrenica.

It may read like a cheap thriller, but for the outside world these events helped support then-US secretary of state Madeleine Albright's claim that Slovakia had become a "black hole in the heart of Europe" under Meciar.

The afternoon debate, entitled Representation of the Other: a Path Towards Peace or War, heard Elizabeth Csicsery-Ronay of the Hungarian PEN point to the capacity of fiction to boost empathy and understanding and thus contribute to peace.

Croatian Minister of Foreign Affairs Miro Kovač assessed that the statement Ivica Dačić gave on Pope Francis’s denouncement was taken out of context.

As he says, Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs interpreted Pope’s statement in an “unacceptable and inappropriate way”.

SUBOTICA - Serbian and Croatian Foreign Ministers Ivica Dacic and Miro Kovac on Friday reiterated a willingness for further improvement of relations between their two countries, but noted that disagreements remained over Serbia's law on universal jurisdiction over war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia.

Serbian Deputy PM Rasim Ljajic has said that Croatian FM Miro Kovac's claims that Serbia is unprepared for EU accession talks are "unfounded and untrue."

BELGRADE - Serbia has achieved a high level of alignment with EU regulations in the consumer protection sector in Serbia, Serbian State Secretary in the Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications and head of the Negotiating Group 28 Vesna Kovac said on Thursday.