Acting Assistant Foreign Minister for Security Policy Branimir Filipovic spoke today with Chairman of the NATO Military Committee General Knud Bartels about further promotion of cooperation between the Republic of Serbia and NATO through the Partnership for Peace programme.
Filipovic and Bartels discussed the current security situation in the region and in Kosovo-Metohija, as well as very good cooperation of KFOR and the Serbian Army.
Filipovic pointed out that the Republic of Serbia, as a militarily neutral state not aspiring to membership in NATO, wants to improve its partnership within the available mechanisms of the Partnership for Peace, and to be a reliable, responsible and predictable partner of NATO, aimed at the preservation of peace and stability in the region.
Both sides agreed that the recently adopted
Individual Partnership Action Plan between the Republic of Serbia and NATO is a broader framework for further strengthening of political dialogue and the promotion of concrete cooperation in all areas of common interest.
General Bartels is on an official visit to the Republic of Serbia, at the invitation of Chief of the General Staff of the Serbian Army General Lubisa Dikovic, according to a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.