Serbia Schedule of Events - Dec 18 - Jan 7

* Thursday, December 18 – Belgrade: Croatian retailer Pevec holds a news conference on the launch of Pevec Group in Serbia. (0930 GMT).

* Thursday, December 18 – Belgrade: A Greek-Serbian consortium holds a news conference on buying Serbian agricultural and horse raising company Zobnatica (1100 GMT).

* Thursday, December 18 – Novi Sad: Serbia’s Economy Minister Mladjan Dinkic takes part in “The Effects of the Economic Policy and Projections for 2009 And The Global Financial Crisis” conference at the University of Economy (1700 GMT).

* Thursday, December 18 – Belgrade: The Media Centre and the Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia holds a news conference on “Media and the Economic Crisis – From Digits to Information.” Serbia’s central bank governor Radovan Jelasic to attend. (1000 GMT)

Monday, December 22 - Belgrade - The central bank monetary committee holds a session. [rescheduled from December 16]

Thursday, January 1 - New Year's Day, public and market holiday.

Friday, January 2 - Public and market holiday.

Tuesday, January 6 - Serbia celebrates Orthodox Christmas Eve, public holiday.

Wednesday, January 7 - Serbia celebrates Orthodox Christmas, public and market holiday.