Tanjug

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Marko Djuric said on Thursday opening a Serbia-US strategic dialogue would significantly boost the relations between the two countries and take them to a new level.

Speaking to Tanjug, Djuric said the opening of the dialogue, due in the coming days, would be an additional impetus to development of cooperation in all areas.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy PM and Interior Minister Ivica Dacic on Monday signed a book of condolences at the Montenegrin embassy in Belgrade in the wake of a January 1 massacre at Cetinje that left 12 people dead and four others seriously wounded.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Information and Telecommunications Dejan Ristic said on Friday 2024 had been a record year for the Serbian ICT sector, with an export surplus of over 4 bln euros.

BELGRADE - Serbian Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic says the first army recruits are due to go to compulsory military service in September and that the parliament is first due to adopt a law on compulsory military service by the spring.

BELGRADE - There has been enough time to measure the performance of every government minister and assess whether they deserve a "pass" or PM Milos Vucevic's team needs to be "refreshed", says Serbian Minister for Public Investments Darko Glisic, who also heads the Executive Committee of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).

BELGRADE - Serbians need not be concerned over the halt of Russian gas transit via Ukraine because Serbia gets its gas supplies through the Balkan Stream pipeline, Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic told Tanjug on Thursday.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and Finance Minister Sinisa Mali said on Wednesday Serbia had already paid the first instalment for an acquisition of French Rafale fighter jets and that the next one was due in January.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy PM and Interior Minister Ivica Dacic received a farewell visit from the head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia Jan Braathu on Friday, thanking him for his engagement in joint work between the Interior Ministry and the OSCE aimed at maintaining security.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Pristina's special police raided the building of a Serbian urban planning enterprise in the north of Kosovska Mitrovica on Friday.

During the raid, the so-called Kosovo Police seized the enterprise's property found inside the building.

The enterprise has around a dozen employees.

BELGRADE - Serbian Armed Forces (SAF) Chief of General Staff Gen Milan Mojsilovic visited land force units at the Raska garrison, southwestern Serbia, on Wednesday.