Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic told Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti the economic cooperation agreement that Serbia is set to sign with the Euro-Asian Economic Union is not political.
PM Brnabic is scheduled to travel to Russia in 10 days to sign the agreement.
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic will attend the meeting of the prime ministers of the Visegrad Group and of the Western Balkans in Prague on 12 September. The host of the meeting will be Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis, Serbian media report.
This is the first meeting of the prime ministers of the Visegrad Group – the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary with the prime ministers of the Western Balkans.
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic met today with Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to Serbia, Mochammad Chandra Widya and discussed bilateral relations as well as advancing general cooperation between the two countries, RTS reports.
Brnabic welcomed the newly appointed ambassador and noted how much Serbia appreciates principled stance of Indonesia on Kosovo and Metohija. She added that such support and respect of the international law give Serbia additional motive in searching the ways to reach a compromise solution between Belgrade and Pristina.
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic pays one-day visit to Spain where she met with the Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister and newly appointed EU High Representative Josep Borrell, Tanjug news agency reports.
The main topics of the meeting included bilateral relations, Serbia’s EU integration and Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said during the opening of an integrated border crossing point Tabanovce-Presevo that Serbia “would enter bilateral agreements”, as long as CEFTA remains suspended because of irresponsible Pristina’s behaviour, BETA news agency reported.
She opened the border crossing point together with the North Macedonia Prime Minister Zoran Zaev.
Brnabic further underlined that regional cooperation faces major challenges because Pristina introduced the tariffs on goods from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, thus suspending the CEFTA agreement.
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic reacting to Pristina’s ban for Serbian passports said that “in quasi-state of Kosovo" one cannot make head or tail of the situation. She also noted that it reflects how the situation in Kosovo and Metohija is unsafe.
“The adviser of their Foreign Affairs Minister said it is forbidden that citizens with Serbian documents pass, Haradinaj said it was not forbidden, then the adviser again said it is,” Brnabic added.
When Minister without portfolio Nenad Popovic said “the Brussels Agreement is dead” and there is “no integration into the EU for Serbia anymore,” he was not expressing the view of the Serbian Government, Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said on Saturday, TV N1 reported.
“Every minister in the government is obliged to implement the agreed-upon policy, those not able to do so are free to leave,” Brnabic added.
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said the importance of continuing Belgrade-Pristina dialogue was discussed today during her meeting with EU Enlargement and Neighbourly Policy Commissioner Johannes Hahn, Radio kontakt plus reported. She also expressed a hope an initiative that would enable Pristina to reconsider its stances and turn towards the regional cooperation would emerge.
Prime Minister Ana Brnabic welcomed yesterday in Belgrade newly-appointed Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Serbia Aleksandr Botsan-Kharchenko and stated that mutual support and the traditional friendship of the two peoples are the key for the exceptionally good results of Serbia and Russia, Serbian Government announced on its website.
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic expressed hope Pristina leaders would have enough courage and responsibility to change their decisions in order to continue the dialogue, RTS reports.
“We are literally ready every day to return to the negotiation table and continue the dialogue. This is the only way to have stability in Kosovo and Metohija, so people can continue living peacefully,” Brnabic told journalists.
She noted a survey was conducted in Kosovo and indicated that 91 percent of citizens living in that territory do not want frozen conflict, do not want status quo.