Dacic attends UN Economic and Social Council

BELGRADE - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic will attend a two-day meeting of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York starting on Monday and inform the members of the council about the extent of the damage caused by the May floods in Serbia and also invite them to take part in the donor conference in Brussels on July 16.

"Serbia's participation at the ECOSOC meeting is an extraordinary opportunity to inform the international community at the UN headquarters about the scale of the damage caused by the floods in Serbia and to invite the UN members to take an active part in the donor conference in Brussels," the Foreign Ministry said in a release.

The ECOSOC meeting, which is the most important UN body when it comes to economic, social and environmental protection and sustainable development, will also include two meetings of ministers, one a political forum on sustainable development and the other the Annual Ministerial Review.

Serbia was elected a member of ECOSOC in 2013 for the three-year period from 2014 to 2016 with a possible re-election, says the release.

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