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The UNA's endorsement of a plan to deploy a European mission in Kosovo was welcomed yesterday by Serbia but seen as a major setback in the disputed Albanian-majority territory.

BELGRADE, Serbia -- The small opposition Liberal Democratic Party said on Sunday it will not support a no-confidence motion filed against Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic's government.

Serbian President Boris Tadic told the visiting United Nations chief war crimes prosecutor Tuesday that Serbia is making every effort to capture remaining war crimes suspects.

The International Monetary Fund has agreed a 518 million dollar line of credit for Serbia to help the country weather the global financial crisis, IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said Monday.

The chief prosecutor of The Hague war crimes tribunal, Serge Brammertz, arrived in Belgrade on Monday for a two-day official visit.

With one eye on the battle it faces to convince voters that it can handle the economic crisis, the New Democracy government yesterday began putting pressure on ousted MP Petros Tatoulis to give up his ...

Serbia's ruling coalition announced a 15-month, 520- million dollar standby credit with the International Monetary Fund .

Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis with Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic in Athens yesterday after Greece expressed support for SerbiaA's efforts to join the European Union.

Serbia's Cvetkovic is in Greece. Also in diplomatic news this week: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Italian counterpart, Silvio Berlusconi, will co-chair an intergovernmental summit.

Serbia faces an economic slowdown in 2009, buffeted like many Eastern European countries by global financial turmoil, but is confident of overcoming the crisis, Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic said.

Czech President Vaclav Klaus will pay a two-day working visit to Serbia at the invitation of Serbian counterpart Boris Tadic and meet with top Serbian officials, reports said on Sunday.

Serbia is negotiating a new two-year arrangement with the International Monetary Fund to monitor its economy but will not ask for a loan, Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic said Friday.

OUR GUARANTEE: Serbian prime minister Mirko Cvetkovic has asked parliament to fast-track legislation increasing the bank deposit guarantee from 3000 euro to 50 000 euro, valid for all deposits whether in dinar ...

Traders talk at the Begrade Stock Exchange in Serbia, yesterday, as stocks plunged 6.77 percent to close at an all-time low.

Kosovo is projected to join IMF and the World Bank in 2009. Also in business news: Swedish retailer IKEA wants to open five retail outlets and possibly a factory in Serbia, while annual inflation in Montenegro ...

Romania is calling for a three-party meeting with Italy and Serbia to demonstrate support for Serbia's bid to become an EU member.

BELGRADE : Some of the smaller Balkan countries may prove capable of weathering the impact of global financial turmoil without loans from the International Monetary Fund, but Serbia and Croatia, which are ...

The Serbian government will raise the guarantee sum for deposits of citizens in banks to 50,000 euros as one of the measures to minimize the effects of the worldwide financial crisis, Prime Minister Mirko ...

Serbia has also decided to ask the International Monetary Fund for additional support, according to a stament from senior government officials last Monday cited in Reuters.

Serbia says it will implement an agreement with the EU even though its bid to join the 27-nation bloc has stalled over its failure to catch war crimes suspects.