{"id":196992,"date":"2025-12-31T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=196992"},"modified":"2026-01-03T05:20:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T03:20:19","slug":"good-news-for-serbia-americans-extend-nis-license-operations-allowed-until-january-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/good-news-for-serbia-americans-extend-nis-license-operations-allowed-until-january-23\/","title":{"rendered":"GOOD NEWS FOR SERBIA: Americans Extend NIS License, Operations Allowed Until January 23!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>The Washington administration has extended the operational license for Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS) until January 23, according to a report by RTS (Radio Television of Serbia).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After 84 days of American sanctions against NIS, <strong>OFAC<\/strong> (Office of Foreign Assets Control) has granted a license for the continuation of NIS operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As RTS previously learned, President <strong>Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107<\/strong> held important discussions today regarding the resolution of the NIS crisis with the Washington administration, OFAC, and the State Department, as well as with Hungarian Prime Minister <strong>Viktor Orb\u00e1n<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President will provide more detailed information on what this means for Serbia and the resolution of the sanctions during a broadcast tomorrow on RTS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier today, Vu\u010di\u0107 congratulated citizens on the New Year and noted his belief that within the next 24 hours, the country would celebrate &#8220;phenomenal political news.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, on December 24, OFAC issued a new license to NIS allowing negotiations for the <strong>sale of the Russian stake<\/strong>, with an extended deadline until March 24. It has been confirmed that the Russians are negotiating the sale of their stake with the Hungarian company <strong>MOL<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the imposition of sanctions on NIS, there has been no import of crude oil via the <strong>Adriatic Pipeline (JANAF)<\/strong>. The Pan\u010devo refinery has been out of operation since December 2, leaving Serbia to rely on state reserves and the import of processed petroleum products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong>RTS   <strong>Photo: <\/strong>NIS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington administration has extended the operational license for Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS) until January 23, according to a report by RTS (Radio Television of Serbia). After 84 days of American sanctions against NIS, OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) has granted a license for the continuation of NIS operations. As RTS previously learned, President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":100000203275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3570,725,38,135],"class_list":["post-196992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","tag-nis-2","tag-russia","tag-serbia","tag-usa","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196993,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196992\/revisions\/196993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}