2022 in Serbia
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Events in the year 2022 in Serbia.
- President: Aleksandar Vučić
- Prime Minister: Ana Brnabić
- President of the National Assembly: Ivica Dačić (until 1 August); Vladimir Orlić onwards
Events
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia
- 11 January – Patriarch Porfirije, the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, tests positive for COVID-19.[1]
- 15 January – In an extraordinary session, the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo votes to ban Kosovo Serbs from voting in Serbia's upcoming constitutional referendum on Kosovan territory.[2]
- 16 January – 2022 Serbian constitutional referendum: Serbians vote in a referendum on whether to approve a constitutional reform that would bring the Serbian judicial system closer to the model required for the country to join the European Union.[3]
- 15 February – The 2021–2022 Serbian environmental protests end following the dissolution of the National Assembly of Serbia.[4]
- 1 April – Eight people are killed and 20 more are injured during a coal mine collapse in Aleksinac, Serbia.[5]
- 3 April – 2022 Serbian general election:
- Serbians vote in the presidential and parliamentary elections.[6]
- President Aleksandar Vučić is re-elected with 60.0% of the vote, and his party Serbian Progressive Party wins the most votes in the National Assembly at 42.9% though fail to win an overall majority of seats.[7]
- 5 June – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov cancels his scheduled visit to Serbia after neighbouring states in the Balkans refuse to let Lavrov's plane use their airspace.[8]
- 17 June – Serbia reports its first case of monkeypox.[9]
- 16 July – An Antonov An-12 cargo plane, operated by a Ukrainian airline, crashes near the city of Kavala, Greece, killing all eight people on board. The aircraft was carrying weapons from Serbia to Bangladesh, and crashed before a planned stop in Jordan.[10]
- 17 July – Croatia refuses to allow a private visit from the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić to the site of the Jasenovac concentration camp due to the Government of Croatia not being formally notified of the visit.
- 31 July – Kosovo Police close two border crossings in North Kosovo after local Serbs blocked roads and fired shots at police to protest an order to switch Serbian car license plates to Kosovan ones within two months.[11]
- 27 August – Kosovan prime minister Albin Kurti and Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić agree on a freedom of movement arrangement between Kosovo and Serbia.[12]
- 3 October – Serbian Party Oathkeepers Together with the People's Party, New Democratic Party of Serbia, and Dveri, signed a joint declaration for the "reintegration of Kosovo into the constitutional and legal order of Serbia" in October 2022.[13]
- 23 November – Kosovo and Serbia agree an EU-brokered deal to end a dispute over Kosovar license plates in North Kosovo, which triggered protests last year.[14]
- 26 November – FIFA announces that they will discipline the Serbia national football team for hanging a banner in their locker room that showed the territory of Kosovo as part of Serbia. Kosovar authorities condemned the incident.[15]
- 9 December – Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić says Serbia is close to deploying its troops to North Kosovo after claiming the lives of the Serb minority there are "being threatened," and that the NATO-led Kosovo Force was "failing to protect them."[16]
- 11 December – 2022 North Kosovo crisis: Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić calls an emergency meeting of the National Security Council. After the meeting, Vučić states that "it is important to call on Serbs and Albanians to keep the peace" and that he "made certain decisions and gave orders."[17]
- 15 December – Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić announced that the Serbian government will send a request to KFOR for the return of a certain number, "from hundreds to a thousand", of police and army personnel to Kosovo, in accordance with UN Resolution 1244.[18]
