The first plane scheduled to return a group of Serbian women and children from Tripoli to Belgrade should be sent to Libya by the end of Tuesday, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Mirko Stefanovic has announced.

"We have already secured a spoken permit, the Libyan airspace is open, so we are going to send the first plane as soon as possible. We will then continue the evacuation until completion," Stefanovic told Tanjug.

According to him, the people will be evacuated in large groups from locations like Tripoli, Ras Lanuf and Benghazi.

The ministry will start with Tripoli, while negotiating with other countries to evacuate the Serbian citizens employed by their companies, he noted. Those countries are Turkey, France, UK and Italy for the most part.

Russia should also help vacuate the largest group of Serbian citizens, since a lot of them work for Russian companies in Ras Lanuf.

Their extraction was agreed with the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, Stefanovic remarked.

The Foreign Ministry is sending more of its people to Tripoli to help register all of the Serbian citizens there, since they have been reporting to the embassy in increasing numbers, the secretary said.

"We think there are over 1,000 of our citizens in Libya, but the registration process continues. The situation last night was calmer than the night before, so we did not receive information about any new incidents and all our citizens are fine," Stefanovic concluded.