Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will take part in a Friends of Serbia meeting in Brussels on May 18, the Serbian government office for media relations said on Thursday.

All the foreign ministers from EU countries will be at the meeting, and Vucic was invited by Austria's Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz and his Italian counterpart Paolo Gentiloni.

The ambassadors of Austria and Italy, Johannes Aigner and Giuseppe Manzi, presented Vucic with the invitation and said that the meeting was an expression of their countries' support for Serbia's faster EU integration.

Serbia has made good progress in preparing for the first chapters of the accession talks, and the resumption of the talks with Pristina has yielded results, the invitation states.

Vucic thanked Austria and Italy for the support and another opportunity for Serbia to present itself to European partners as a serious country connitted to its main foreign policy goal, EU membership.

EU High Representative Federica Mogherini and Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn have also been invited.