Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica welcomed a message of European Union (EU) foreign ministers from their meeting in Maastricht and described their position as "encouraging and logical". At a meeting held on Sept 4, EU foreign ministers reiterated their strong support to the preservation of the state union of Serbia-Montenegro and the signing of the stabilisation and association agreement with the EU, but with the inclusion of some technical particularities in the economic, trade and customs systems of the two members states.