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BELGRADE - Belgrade Mayor Aleksandar Sapic formally resigned on Friday to initiate the creation of legal conditions for December 17 early elections in the city, to be held simultaneously with parliamentary and provincial elections in Serbia.

PRISTINA - Two more Serbs suspected of involvement in Sunday's deadly clashes between a group of local Serbs and the so-called Kosovo Police in the Banjska village near Zvecan in the north of Kosovo-Metohija were placed in one-month custody by the basic court in Pristina on Tuesday.

Pristina-based Reporteri said the two were Blagoje Spasojevic and Dusan Maksimovic.

PRISTINA - Pristina's special prosecutor Naim Abazi said the body of another person involved in Sunday's clashes in the Banjska village in the north of Kosovo-Metohija had been found on Monday.

In a statement to Pristina-based Koha paper, Abazi said the body belonged to one of the "attackers" on the so-called Kosovo Police.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy PM and Defence Minister Milos Vucevic received Norway's newly-appointed Ambassador to Belgrade Kristin Melsom on Tuesday.

He noted that EU membership was Serbia's foreign policy priority and that military neutrality was its strategic commitment, which he said was no obstacle to cooperation and forging good relations with all interested parties.

BELGRADE - The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia (PKS) and the Department of Development of the US state of Ohio signed on Thursday in Belgrade a MoU on cooperation in economic development, aimed at strengthening and advancing economic ties.

The MoU was signed by PKS official Mihailo Vesovic and Ohio Department of Development Director Lydia Mihalik.

BELGRADE - Parliament Speaker Vladimir Orlic set Wednesday as the day for a vote to elect Serbia's new minister of economy.

"I hereby set Wednesday 11.30 am as the date for a vote on the third item of the agenda - election of the minister of economy," Orlic announced on Tuesday during a parliamentary session that was disrupted by opposition parties.

BELGRADE - Hosting EXPO 2027 will be an opportunity for Serbia to present itself in the right light and the expo will the biggest and the most important event for Serbia in decades, Serbian Finance Minister Sinisa Mali said on Thursday.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said during a meeting with the UK's special Western Balkans envoy Stuart Peach in Belgrade on Wednesday that fulfilment of agreed obligations was a precondition for a continuation of the process of normalisation of Belgrade-Pristina relations.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said on Tuesday evening the ICT sector was an engine of Serbia's development and that her government would focus on five areas during preparations for EXPO 2027: autonomous cars, a BIO4 campus, investments in science and technology parks, further investments in Kragujevac and development of artificial intelligence.

PRISTINA - The lawyer of a Kosovo-Metohija Serb arrested by Pristina's authorities on Sunday confirmed to Tanjug on Monday he had appealed a decision by the Pristina Basic Court to place his client in 30-day custody.