Lavrov confirmed Putin's visit to Belgrade

NEW YORK - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has said that Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had told him Russian President Vladimir Putin would visit Belgrade for the 70th anniversary of the city's liberation from German occupation.

Summing up his visit to New York, Dacic said the two most important issues raised during the last meeting of the UN General Assembly, which he attended as part of a Serbian delegation, had been the battles against radical Islamists and agaonst foreign fighters.

Serbia supported the Security Council resolution proposed by US President Barack Obama and is prepared to join a global alliance against terrorism, he pointed out.

Another important topic for Serbia were the preparations for its chairmanship of the OSCE and there was a whole series of meetings focusing on that, Dacic stated.
"I talked to current chairperson, Swiss diplomat Didier Burkhalter, Russian, Ukrainian, German, Austrian and Italian foreign ministers. We discussed countries that would take over the OSCE chairmanship after Serbia," he remarked.

"Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told me Geramny would probably decide next week to accept to take over the OSCE chairmanship after Serbia, in 2016, and that he hoped Austria would accept the position for 2017," Dacic noted.

Serbia is among the top 10 European countries when it comes to the number of its people in peace missions around the world, the minister pointed out.