Brnabic meets with COELA representatives

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met with representatives of the Council of the EU Working Party on Enlargement and Countries Negotiating Accession to the EU (COELA) on Thursday.

Brnabic noted that EU membership was a strategic commitment and the priority of Serbia's foreign policy, and added that the EU was Serbia's most significant external trade partner, accounting for two thirds of its total external trade, the Serbian government said in a statement.

Brnabic reminded the representatives that Serbia was ready to open Cluster 3 in its EU accession talks, which deals with competitiveness and inclusive growth, and that the European Commission had on two occasions called on member states to support that step in the talks process, but that that had not taken place as yet.

She noted that Belgrade remained fully committed to dialogue with Pristina but that it...