New stage in Serbia-NATO relations

BRUSSELS- Serbia entered a new stage of the relations with NATO by enforcement of the Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP), Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic and Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic said after the meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday.

Our neutral stand is not brought into question by the plan, Dacic told reporters in the NATO seat in Brussels.

Dacic said that IPAP opens the possibility for cooperation between Serbia and NATO in many sectors, including science, public diplomacy and participation in international peacekeeping actions.

He noted that NATO is important for Serbia both because of KFOR and support to the Brussels agreement.

Dacic said that he received guarantees from Stoltenberg that no Kosovo armed forces will have access to northern Kosovo and added that previous NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen issued similar guarantees earlier.

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