Brnabic: We hope FTA with UAE will be finalised in 2023

DUBAI - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said on Monday in Dubai she hoped talks about a FTA with the UAE would be finalised this year.

Speaking to reporters, Brnabic said she was greatly honoured to have met with UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and added that they had discussed advancement of Serbia-UAE cooperation and that he had asked her to convey his regards to Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

"Hopefully, we will complete the talks about a Serbia-UAE FTA in 2023, which would be very important for us. He shared with me the information that every country they have signed a FTA with tripled or quadrupled the volume of its cooperation as early as in the first year after the signing of the agreement," Brnabic said.

She said they had also discussed global challenges facing all countries of the world, including Serbia and the UAE, as well as ways of...