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Serbia committed to cooperation with Council of Europe

Belgrade, 3 October 2023

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic met today with Axel Schäfer, co-rapporteur of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the preparation of a report on Serbia’s progress in fulfilling its obligations and duties stemming from its membership in the Council of Europe.

At the meeting, it was pointed out that Serbia, as an active member of the Council of Europe, is persistent in applying the value framework and standards of this international organisation of European countries.

In this context, bearing in mind the progress our country has achieved and the fact that the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe abolished the monitoring of our country back in 2015, we expect that the rapporteurs will recognise this in their report after the visit and recommend that Serbia moves from the phase of regular monitoring into the phase of the so-called post-monitoring dialogue.

Also, our country expects that the upcoming PACE monitoring report will acknowledge the efforts and results achieved in the reform process.

Dacic stated that Serbia is committed to cooperation with the Council of Europe, as the oldest pan-European organisation and all its independent institutions, on the basis of respect for the organisation's values and normative framework.

He briefed his interlocutor about the complex situation in Kosovo and Metohija, and underlined that Serbia's goal is to de-escalate the situation on the ground, which the temporary institutions of self-government in Pristina do not want at the moment.