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Labus on official visit to Italy

Belgrade, 19 January 2006

Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Miroljub Labus traveled today to Italy on a two-day visit, where he will participate in a conference named “Regional Cooperation, Securing Peace and Role of Contracts in the Balkans” organised by the Institute for Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans.

Miroljub Labus

At the conference to be held in Flori near Bologna there will be a discussion concerning progress made by countries in the region and mutual cooperation in the process of EU integration. The conference will be attended by representatives of the governments of Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the Head of the European Commission Directorate for Western Balkans Reinhard Priebe, Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe Erhard Busek and numerous NATO representatives.

In Rome today Labus will meet Italian Minister of Production Activities Claudio Scajola, with whom he will talk about cooperation between the two countries in the area of infrastructure. At the meeting special attention will also be given to the construction of the Pan European oil pipeline from the Romanian harbour Constanta, across Serbia and Croatia, to Trieste.

Labus will also meet today with representatives of the Italian Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as with representatives of the Italian parliament’s Committee for Foreign Affairs, with whom he will discuss bilateral relations of the two countries, and the upcoming negotiations on the status of Kosovo and Metohija.