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Serbia wants best possible relations with its neighbours

Belgrade, 16 March 2023

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Croatia Gordan Grlic Radman said today that, regardless of the differences between the two countries, it is the right time to work on changing perspectives of looking at each other, in order to improve relations and bilateral cooperation.

Gordan Grlic Radman

Author: Tanjug

At the conference "Bilateral relations between Serbia and Croatia - towards new dynamics", where he spoke via video link, Dacic emphasised that Serbia wants the best possible relations with its neighbours.

According to him, Serbia and Croatia cannot resolve all outstanding issues from the past unless they start building good relations in the future.

The First Deputy Prime Minister pointed out that the two countries do not share the same opinion on numerous issues, but that they must talk with respect in order to try to understand each other better.

Dacic said that the revitalisation of relations between Belgrade and Zagreb is initiated by the minority communities too, Serbian in Croatia and Croatian in Serbia, and assessed that they have a transformative role in the state policies of the two neighbours.

He mentioned that there are commissions for missing persons, war crimes and the issue of property and succession, but there are also issues concerning the present and the future, such as the infrastructural connection of the two countries.

Grlic Radman said that Croatia is ready for a constructive dialogue with Serbia, and emphasised that this country wants to have good relations with its neighbours and that it is in its interest to have stability in the region.

He said that Croatia supports Serbia's European path and that it is in the interest of the European integration of all countries in the region, stating that his country is ready to help Serbia in the complex process of accession negotiations with the EU.

Tanja Miscevic

Author: Tanjug

Minister for European Integration Tanja Miscevic pointed out that the help of Croatia is important for the process of European integration of our country, through the transfer of knowledge and experience related not only to negotiations on EU membership, but also to negotiations on accession to the Schengen zone.

Miscevic expressed her satisfaction with the fact that we are no longer talking only about the issues that burden the relations between Serbia and Croatia, but about finding a process that will help improve the relations between the two countries, whose common interest is progress, development, stability and security.

Miscevic stated that Serbia and Croatia already have very successful cross-border cooperation in three financial perspectives, i.e. three seven-year periods.