Serbian foreign minister to visit Berlin on Friday

BELGRADE - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic will meet with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin on Friday.

Dacic said on Wednesday that he and Steinmeier would discuss bilateral relations between Serbia and Germany, hold consultations on the coming Serbian chairmanship of the OSCE and talk about the Conference of Western Balkan States taking place in Berlin August 28 that would be attended by the prime ministers and foreign and economy ministers of the region and EU member states.

The event, organized by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy at the initiative of Chancellor Angela Merkel, is aimed at strengthening economic cooperation in the Western Balkans.

The conference topics are regional integration, common European path, regional development projects, particularly in the fields of infrastructure and energy and business cooperation in third markets, Dacic told reporters.