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BELGRADE - Lazar Krstic announced on Saturday his resignation to the position of Finance Minister in the government of Serbia.

After the government meeting at which the draft laws on labor and on pension and disability insurance were adopted, Krstic said that the decision regarding his resignation was made in agreement with Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday that the proposed changes to the Law on the Security Information Agency (BIA) were made based on the Constitutional Court's decision and Ombudsman's request and will make the agency's operations more transparent.

BELGRADE - Deputy head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia Paula Thiede said on Tuesday journalists had to work in the interest of the people, and not the publishers or the govenrment, and that they had to oppose any pressure or form of censorship.

BELGRADE - Kori Udovicki, Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government, conferred on Wednesday with Head of EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport on activities and support of the European Union to the reform of public administration in Serbia.