Politics of Serbia

Serbia's first deputy PM and foreign minister said this after his talks in Belgrade with Lebanese Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants Gebran Bassil, the government announced.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will on Wednesday hold extraordinary meetings with the ambassadors of China, Russia and the Quint member states and has also called a National Security Council session for later in the afternoon in the wake of Pristina's decision to increase taxes on goods from central Serbia by 100 pct, Tanjug reported.

Djukanovic, who is a member of the Serbian National Assembly from the ruling SNS party, posted the following message on Twitter:

The Democratic Party will mark the anniversary of democratic changes in Serbia with an exhibition at the party premises in Vracar that will be attended by its leader Zoran Lutovac, the president of the New Party, Zoran Zivkovic. and the president of the Social Democratic Party, Boris Tadic.

Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic said this on Tuesday in New York, at the Peace Summit in honour of the birth anniversary of Nelson Mendela, organized in New York City on the eve of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly.

Johnson is chair of the US Senate Homeland Security Committee and of the Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation.

Dacic and Lavrov assessed on this occasion that the level of trust and high dynamics of Russian-Serbian contacts show that relations between the two countries are continuously and productively evolving, the Serbian government has announced.

Leaders of Serbian Orthodox congregations and Serbian-American organisations have appealed to Congress members and the US administration to protect the rights of Kosovo Serbs and expressed "strong opposition to the proposed ethnic partition of the territory", Serbian media reported on Monday.

At the same time, 180 members of this body were in favor, the DS reported on its website.

Daily Blic named the dissenting members of the main board as former DS leader Dragan Sutanovac, National Assembly members Natasa Vuckovic, Dragoljub Micunovic, Radoslav Milojcic, Gordana Comic, Vojovodina Provincial Board Chairman Miroslav Vasim, and Vida Ognjanovic.

Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj asked the UN court in The Hague to be allowed to appeal against its final verdict sentencing him to ten years in prison for the persecution of Croats.