Outline of Serbia

Floods "showed importance of regional cooperation"

VIENNA -- Ivica Dačić says the recent natural disaster showed the exceptional importance of further strengthening of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region activities.

BELGRADE - Serbia is one of the ten highest-ranking European countries takng part in the UN peacekeeping missions around the world, while in the Western Balkans it is the leader in this respect, said Peter Due, head of the UN Office in Belgrade and a representative of the Secretary-General UN Ban Ki -moon in charge of the region.

Leaders of the Democratic Party of Serbia and the United Regions of Serbia have resigned after their parties failed to cross the threshold to enter parliament for the first time.