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BELGRADE - Dusan Petrovic, leader of the parliamentary party “Together for Serbia” (ZZS), advocated on Saturday for a constructive debate between the ruling and opposition parties on resolving the most important issues in the country.

Ambassador: Erdogan made no controversial statement

BELGRADE, SARAJEVO -- Reports carried by some media in Bosnia quoting a controversial statement allegedly made by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan are "not true."

This is what Turkish Ambassador in Belgrade Mehmet Kemal Bozay told Tanjug on Sunday.

EU commissioner in "surprise visit" to Belgrade

BELGRADE -- EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule will arrive here on Wednesday evening, and his visit will be unofficial, B92 has learned.

Fule will stop in Belgrade on his way to Kotor, Montenegro, where an informal meeting of Western Balkans foreign ministers will be held on Thursday.

Activists marked the anniversary of the killing of Croatian policeman Josip Reihl-Kir, who was killed while trying to prevent conflict between Croats and Serbs in the Osijek area in 1991.

The towering cross in the Aerodrom municipality of Skopje, which was sanctified this week, is a cultural artefact and not meant to cause religious or ethnic offence, said Todor Petrov, the head of the World Macedonian Congress, the NGO behind its construction.

“The cross is not erected to provoke and it is not an anti-Albanian or anti-Muslim symbol,” Petrov said.

Veselin Vlahovic, who waged a campaign of murder, rape and robbery against Bosniaks and Croats in Sarajevo in 1992, had his prison sentence reduced from 45 to 42 years.

The bodies were exhumed after the recent floods that devastated the country washed up bones suspected to be those of Bosniaks killed during the 1992-95 war near Doboj.

President urged to "change his mind" about Sarajevo trip

SARAJEVO -- Bakir Izetbegović says he "does not understand the reasoning behind Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić’s plans not to go to Sarajevo."

BELGRADE – The Croatian ministry of interior has unlawfully erased more than 50,000 ethnic Serbs from the national register of permanent residents in the period between 1991 and the end of 2013, the president of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia Miodrag Linta has said.

The winner of this year's Eurovision, Conchita Wurst, is responsible for the flooding in the Balkans, according to church leaders in Serbia and Montenegro, reports The Telegraph.