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EU membership Serbia’s top foreign policy priority
Belgrade,
1 June 2014
First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic announced today that a rich diplomatic activity is ahead of Serbia this month.
Author:
Tanjug
Dacic said at a press conference held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that UK Minister for Europe David Lidington is coming to Belgrade tomorrow.
He said that relations with Britain are of great importance for our country, although not much progress has been made in recent years.
The First Deputy Prime Minister said that his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu will visit Belgrade on 10 June with whom he will talk, among other things, about flood relief aid for Serbia.
Dacic said that the strengthening of relations with Russia is a foreign policy priority for Serbia, and announced that Foreign Minister of Russia Sergei Lavrov will visit Belgrade most probably on 17 June.
Speaking about European integration, he said that for Serbia it is important to open chapters 23 and 24 that deal with the judiciary, fundamental rights and freedoms and security, and Chapter 35, that deals with normalisation of relations between Belgrade and Pristina, because the speed of Serbia’s advancement in accession negotiations with the EU depends on that.
Dacic voiced hope that Chapter 35 will be opened by the end of the year, perhaps even by October, and that the second intergovernmental conference of Serbia and the EU will be held during Italy’s presidency over the EU, in the second half of 2014.
He underlined that membership in the EU is Serbia’s top foreign policy priority and voiced hope that by 2018 our country will be completely ready for the full membership so that it could be admitted in the Union in 2020.
He said that relations with Britain are of great importance for our country, although not much progress has been made in recent years.
The First Deputy Prime Minister said that his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu will visit Belgrade on 10 June with whom he will talk, among other things, about flood relief aid for Serbia.
Dacic said that the strengthening of relations with Russia is a foreign policy priority for Serbia, and announced that Foreign Minister of Russia Sergei Lavrov will visit Belgrade most probably on 17 June.
Speaking about European integration, he said that for Serbia it is important to open chapters 23 and 24 that deal with the judiciary, fundamental rights and freedoms and security, and Chapter 35, that deals with normalisation of relations between Belgrade and Pristina, because the speed of Serbia’s advancement in accession negotiations with the EU depends on that.
Dacic voiced hope that Chapter 35 will be opened by the end of the year, perhaps even by October, and that the second intergovernmental conference of Serbia and the EU will be held during Italy’s presidency over the EU, in the second half of 2014.
He underlined that membership in the EU is Serbia’s top foreign policy priority and voiced hope that by 2018 our country will be completely ready for the full membership so that it could be admitted in the Union in 2020.
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