Vucic confirms he'll travel to Tirana in late May

Vucic confirms he'll travel to Tirana in late May

SARAJEVO -- Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said while visiting Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on Wednesday that he would travel to Albania on May 27.

He said his trip will come "because it is important to improve relations in the region and invest in peace and stability."

"It is important to invest in peace and stability in the region for each of our countries so that what happened in Kumanovo does not happen to us," he said addressing a joint news conference with Chairman of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Council of Ministers Denis Zvizdic.

Vucic said that "situations like that in Kumanovo" - where eight Macedonian police officers and 14 Albanian terrorists died in clashes last weekend - must be prevented, and that "only through peace and cooperation all countries in the region can make progress.

Vucic and Zvizdic discussed "bilateral cooperation and joint activities of Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina activities in third markets," Tanjug reported, and added that Vucic said on the occasion that "best relations with Bosnia-Herzegovina and Bosniaks (Muslims) are in Serbia's interest."

Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Vucic noted that the topic of the discussion was establishing a better climate and a more successful cooperation between the two countries.

"We discussed cooperation in the fields of the defense industry and tourism, as well as security issues, the fight against terrorism and solving the backlog of disagreements between Serbs and Bosniaks," Vucic noted, adding that an agreement was made for the governments of the two countries to hold a joint session in the second half of the year to discuss a number of bilateral agreements.

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