Serbia to insist on River Danube being Europe's chief route to Black Sea - TV.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Excerpt from report by Serbian TV on 1 November

[Presenter] Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has opened in Moscow the fifteenth summit of foreign ministers of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization [BSEC] countries, during which Serbia assumed the chairmanship of this organization for the forthcoming six months, until May 2007. Our reporter Bojan Brkic is there.

[Reporter] The Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization is little known in Serbia. It is made up of 11 countries from wider Black Sea region. [passage omitted] Serbia has so far not had any large-scale economic benefits from its …