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Improvement of cooperation with Burundi

Belgrade/Bujumbura, 15 February 2018

First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic is on an official visit to the Republic of Burundi during which he met with top officials of that country.

Author: mfa.gov.rs

Dacic met with President of the Republic of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza and Minister of External Relations and International Cooperation Alain Aime Njamitwe.

Also, the First Deputy Prime Minister met with Secretary General of the ruling party in Burundi - "National Council for the Defence of Democracy - Forces for the Defence of Democracy" Evariste Ndayishimiye.

Dacic expressed his satisfaction with the visit to the Republic of Burundi, and recalled that the two countries are bound by the traditional friendship from the times of Tito and the former Yugoslavia.

The First Deputy Prime Minister recalled that Yugoslavia recognized Burundi in 1962.

He said that a Memorandum of Understanding was signed today between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia and the Ministry of External Relations and International Cooperation of the Republic of Burundi, and a dozen more agreements are yet to be signed.

The First Deputy Prime Minister stressed that there are no obstacles for improving cooperation in the field of politics, economy and education in particular.

We will make a plan of mutual cooperation in the field of political consultations, military, police cooperation, economic cooperation and scholarships for students' education, he announced.

Dacic said he expects the Minister of External Relations and International Cooperation of Burundi to visit Serbia and after that the President of Burundi too.

Burundi's senior officials informed Dacic about the main interior political goals of the current government of Burundi, with a special emphasis on achieving national unity after a series of turbulent decades, the Foreign Ministry of Serbia said in a statement.