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Building strategic partnership with Peru necessary

Belgrade/Lima, 3 July 2019

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic paid an official visit to the Republic of Peru, where he had a very successful conversation with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru Nestoro Popolizio Bardales in the country's capital, Lima.

After the talks in Lima, Dacic said that the former Yugoslavia had excellent relations with Peru, and Peru was one of our biggest political and economic allies in this region.

He noted that in recent years there has been stagnation in relations, and this has resulted in the recognition of the unilaterally declared independence of Kosovo by Peru.

Bearing all this in mind, it is in our interest to renew relations with Peru, and this is why my visit is of exceptional importance. It has been a long time since the last bilateral visit between Serbia and Peru, Dacic said.

He noted that Peru recognised the unilaterally declared independence of Kosovo in 2008, but it has a status of frozen recognition.

Also, Peru and Kosovo have not established diplomatic relations and since 2015 Peru has not voted for Kosovo’s membership in international organisations (UNESCO and INTERPOL).

Dacic pointed out that Peru is a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, and in July it will chair the Security Council, and that Serbia has its open support in the Security Council.

The time has come to renew our relations. We will actively participate in the search for our common interests and, to this end, I expect a visit from my counterpart, Dacic stated.

He assessed that economic cooperation is very low, and cooperation in other areas is also is not too developed, which is why Serbia and Peru need to build a strategic partnership.

The issue of Kosovo is not the most important issue to talk about, the most important are our strategic relations and our presence in the region. Such a friendly relationship will produce a friendly attitude towards the problems regarding Kosovo, he explained.

The First Deputy Prime Minister underlined that it is necessary for Serbia to return to the place that Yugoslavia had in relations with those countries and to protect its national and state interests through such friendly attitude towards them.

The American continent has 35 states that are members of the UN, at the moment Kosovo has not been recognised by 19 countries, whereas 16 have recognised it.

Peru froze its decision on recognition, so Peru can no longer be counted as a country that supports Kosovo, and for us it is very important, the First Deputy Prime Minister underlined.