Loznica

LOZNICA - Serbian Deputy PM and Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said on Friday an ethnic Albanian terrorist who had killed one police officer and wounded another in Loznica, western Serbia, on Thursday had been shot dead by police in the nearby Banja Koviljaca area.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday lithium production in Serbia would enable the country to take a quantum leap to the future and that it should be a dependable partner to Europe, Germany and the whole world in the overall lithium production chain, where full environmental protection would be ensured.

VALJEVO - Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic said in Valjevo on Friday she believed Rio Tinto's Jadar lithium mining project was good for Serbia economically as well as when it comes to accelerating the country's green transition.

BELGRADE - Lithium is a strategic mineral resource that is increasingly in demand in the EU and worldwide due to the energy transition and growing electrification of transport, Serbian Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic said on Thursday.

Members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, due to the consequences of rainfall, intervened in the territory of the City of Novi Sad, the municipality of Beoin, Sremski Karlovci, Zrenjanin, abac, Ruma and Valjevo.

The Sabac-Loznica expressway is part of the Ruma-Sabac-Loznica highway construction project.
Vui pointed out that the road Ruma - abac will be ready by the end of September next year, which means that in a year and a half, the journey from Belgrade to abac will take maximum 45 minutes, and from Belgrade to Loznica - an hour and 10 minutes.

After Serbia's government on Wednesday revoked a key decree greenlighting Rio Tinto's controversial lithium mining project, activists said they did not trust government promises that the mining project is over for good, fearing what might happen after elections in April.

Four years ago, he was an ardent supporter of this project, Belgrade media report.
Referring to the interview of Djilas for Nedeljnik on October 25, 2017, they write that he literally said that we should talk about the concession for those mines, because it is a huge chance for Serbia.

However, the Uprising's main weakness comes from a struggle within over who gets to lead the emerging ecological front, but also which political faction would collect the 'green' votes.

Hundreds of locals from western Serbia, but also activists and opposition politicians from other parts of the country, gathered on Thursday in Loznica, western Serbia, to protest against amendments to the local urban plan to meet the needs of a lithium mining investment by the Anglo-Australian multinational corporation Rio Tinto.