Serbia, Serbia News

Prime Minister Ivica Daeiae met on Wednesday in Belgrade with Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev.

The monument is of the most perfect simplicity. A plain, upright marble slab. In Albanian, Serbian, Hebrew and English it records the site as the ground where the last synagogue in Pristina stood.

By exchanging liaison officers, Kosovo and Serbia have taken a step toward normalising relations between their countries, experts and officials said.

Even today, the country in Europe with the largest population of internally displaced persons is Serbia.

Noting that June 28 is an important date in the Serbian history, Daeiae said that the EU certainly did not schedule the meeting for that very day because of Serbia, and that he expects it to be 'the first St. Vitus Day with happy and good news.'

A Serbian man wanted for being the alleged getaway driver in a murder and attempted murder investigation was deported from the United States Monday.

Aleksandar Vueiae has informed a NATO official "about the previously defined stances on the need for KFOR's further engagement in Kosovo and Metohija."

Lithuania was the last EU member state that did not ratify the SAA, and after today's ratification, the agreement will automatically come into force.

Greek President Karolos Papoulias has arrived in Belgrade and will hold a series of meetings with Serbian officials on Tuesday.

Italy will request granting of the starting date for the EU accession talks with Serbia on June 28, Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino has said.

PRISTINA: A former deputy prime minister of Kosovo was acquitted of corruption on Tuesday, in a blow to EU prosecutors who had charged him as part of a drive to root out graft in the young Balkan country.

The court found members of the criminal group - identified only with their initials as S.A., Z.D., Z. Z., S.I., andi D.K. - to be guilty of trafficking women in Serbia and Moldavia for sexual exploitation.

Belgrade and Pristina exchanged liaison officers on Monday, when Dejan Paviaeeviae started work in his new role at the EU office in Pristina.

For that reason, the president noted that he "expects all remaining debatable issues to be solved as soon as possible."

The United Arab Emirates' Etihad Airways has signed a preliminary agreement with the Serbian government over a possible equity investment in the Balkan country's loss-making JAT Airways.

Serbia and its former province of Kosovo exchanged envoys on Monday for the first time since a 1998-99 war, a step loaded with symbolism for the Balkan neighbours as the European Union considers whether to set Belgrade on the path to membership.

Aleksandar Vueiae has said that he believes Serbia will on June 28 get "not only a green light, but also a starting date for the EU membership talks."

Six more persons have been detained in a corruption case concerning the privatization of the Port of Belgrade company.

Mladan Dinkiae has said that the Serbian economy needed serious reforms, and that as broad as possible social consensus was necessary for them to be successful.

B92's corporate social responsibility efforts have been recognized with an award presented in a ceremony organized by Mass Media International.