Dacic: Reforms leading to main goal - EU membership

BRUSSELS - Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic stated in Brussels on Tuesday that the reforms, which the government is implementing in all segments of the society, are aimed at achieving the main foreign policy goal - Serbia's EU membership.

Serbia as an EU candidate country endeavors to use all available means to the fullest so as to establish the closest possible cooperation with the Union and its members with a view to accelerating Serbia's EU integration process and economic and social recovery, Dacic said at the conference held on the occasion of the launch of the EU Strategy for the Adriatic-Ionian Region.

He underlined that in the previous period, Serbia has proved its commitment to the EU pathway, strengthening of regional cooperation, good neighboring relations, and also normalization of relations with Pristina and implementation of the agreements reached in the course of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina.

Dacic informed participants of the conference that the government's working group for cooperation with the EU in the Adriatic-Ionian region, which will coordinate activities in the European strategy implementation, is soon to be formed.

Of eight members of the EU Strategy, Serbia is the only one without a direct access to the sea and it is ready to join efforts aimed at establishing a functional connection between the coastline with the hinterland.

Serbia views the EU Strategy for the Adriatic-Ionian Region as a very good framework for practical cooperation both with the EU member states and the partner countries in the region, which like Serbia, strive towards the EU membership, Dacic said.

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