Vesic: Business forum opportunity to boost economic ties with Spain

BELGRADE - The good political ties between Serbia and Spain should be accompanied by better economic cooperation, and a business forum with Spanish companies is an opportunity for that, Serbian Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Goran Vesic said on Monday.

In an address at the opening of Western Balkans-Spain Multilateral Opportunities Days, Vesic said the multisectoral forum was a follow-up to a November 2022 business forum that addressed ways of establish closer bilateral economic ties.

The forum was organised by the Spanish exports and investment agency ICEX and the commercial department of the Spanish embassy in Belgrade.

"Spain is a country that is friendly to Serbia, it is one of the five EU member states that do not recongise the self-declared independence of Kosovo, and we are obliged to boost our good political relations also...