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Renewal of Serbia-US cooperation priority

Belgrade, 5 February 2022

Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikola Selakovic said that the strategic goal of Serbian diplomacy in the past period was to continue European integration, nurture our traditional friendships in the world, but also ties with countries with which we had harmonious or allied relations, but they got neglected or aggravated due to unfortunate historical circumstances.

In a letter sent by 16 congressmen to US President Joseph Biden last night, they call for improving relations between the United States and Serbia, recalling the long diplomatic history of the two countries and their strong defence, security and economic ties.

The letter was sent on the occasion of the 140th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and Serbia, and in order to encourage the Joseph Biden administration to deepen relations between the two countries.

Commenting on the letter in a statement to Tanjug news agency, Selakovic pointed out that cooperation between Serbia and the United States was one of our priorities in the past, and the letter from a group of US congressmen to US President Joseph Biden confirmed that there was a will to take such a direction in developing our bilateral relations.

The fact that the idea of the need to work on deepening the Serbian-American partnership was supported by a large number of congressmen from both parties is also a confirmation of the dedicated work of our state leadership and Serbian diplomacy, primarily Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Serbian Ambassador to the United States Marko Djuric. Through personal commitment and entrepreneurship, they managed to make the Serbian caucus in the US Congress stronger than ever, said Selakovic.

According to him, this was done without paid lobbyists, consultants, agencies and similar aids, because Serbia is sincerely and without any hesitation, firmly determined to raise relations with the United States to the highest level in recent history, and that determination is, as it is today clearly seen, recognised in the US administration.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs emphasised that the letter of support from the American congressmen confirmed that Serbia is recognised and appreciated on all meridians today as a reliable and credible partner, which unequivocally confirms the correctness of the foreign policy of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

In the past, we have been accustomed to seeing that in American political circles, various, mostly one-party, declarations were circulating in which Serbia is treated in a completely different way, but the latest letter of support for Serbian-American friendship, signed by twice as many members of Congress than any other of the mentioned declarations, is a hint of a great tectonic change in American politics, and we will certainly continue to work on that, the Minister of Foreign Affairs underlined.