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BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic on Tuesday met with Volker Bouffier, Minister President of the German state of Hesse, who is on a three-day visit to Serbia.

The level of the relations between Serbia and Germany is very high, and they have improved significantly over the past years - politically as well as economically, Dacic said.

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Ivica Dacic says the pace of Serbia's EU membership talks "does not reflect its actual progress in reforms and regulation of relations with its neighbors."

"I am pleased with our approach to the negotiations, but I'm not satisfied with the number of negotiation chapters that have been closed and opened," said Serbian foreign minister, and added:

Bakir Izetbegovic's move is in deep contradiction with the efforts to achieve a comprehensive reconciliation in the region, says Ivica Dacic.

With this move, region returns to the past, the Serbian foreign minister said during his meeting in Belgrade with Director-General for Enlargement at the European Commission Christian Danielsson.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic on Monday cancelled his attendance of the upcoming informal meeting of FMs of the South-East European Cooperation Process (SEECP), to be held in Zagreb on March 3.

In his capacity as SEECP Chairman, Croatian FM Davor Ivo Stir had invited Dacic to attend the meeting, the Serbian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

BELGRADE - If Bosnia and Herzegovina initiates a revision of its genocide lawsuit against Serbia, the relations between the two countries will deteriorate, says Serbian FM Ivica Dacic.

The Serbian government has announced that Ivica Dacic will attend this year's National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC.

Serbia's first deputy PM and foreign minister will take part in the event on Thursday at the invitation of U.S. senators John Boozman and Christopher Coons.

BELGRADE - The relations between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) are good, and top-level political contacts must be intensified in the period to come to give the expansion of overall cooperation an additional impetus, Serbian and Bosnian FMs Ivica Dacic and Igor Crnadak said Monday.

Crnadak invited Dacic to pay a bilateral visit to BiH.

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Ivica Dacic met on Thursday with President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe (CoE) Gudrun Mosler Tornstrom.

First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said Thursday the government would not react today to the release from custody in France of Ramush Haradinaj.

Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarevic has launched another "crude attack" against Serbia, says Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic.

Reacting to a TV interview Grabar-Kitarevic gave on Wednesday, Dacic said her claim that there was no Ustashism and fascism in Croatia was "an obvious lie."