Djuric meets with US congressman

WASHINGTON - Serbian Ambassador to Washington Marko Djuric met with US Congressman Robert Aderholt on Capitol Hill on Thursday.

Aderholt is a member of the Helsinki Commission.

Djuric conveyed to Aderholt Belgrade's gratitude for US Congress support for launching a strategic dialogue between Serbia and the US and to the Open Balkan initiative, whose further activities will be discussed in more detail at a conference of the southeast European branch of the Prayer Breakfast group in Belgrade this month, with support from the Serbian parliament and the Congress of Serbian-American Friendship.

According to a statement released by the Serbian embassy in Washington, Djuric said Serbia remembered an outstretched hand of friendship and had not forgotten that Aderholt had been one of the initiators of a Congress resolution calling for an end to violence and attacks on...