Vucic tells US ambassador Belgrade ready for open talks with Pristina

NEWS 29.04.202114:04
TANJUG/DRAGAN KUJUNDZIC

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told US Ambassador Anthony Godfrey that Belgrade is always ready for an open dialogue with Pristina.

A press release issued after the meeting quoted Vucic as saying that the Washington Agreement to normalize economic activities is complementary to the European Union activities and is a step towards normalizing Belgrade-Pristina relations. It said that they discussed the continued implementation of the Washington Agreement and European integration as well as bilateral cooperation.

“American support in the country’s European integration process is of great important to us. The United States could tell their European partners that progress on European integration is needed for the Western Balkans primarily because the candidate countries could get tired of the constant lack of progress. Reforms of our societies is a goal unto itself but the outcome has to be certain and clear,” Vucic said.

According to Vucic, stronger cooperation with the US is one of Serbia’s foreign policy priorities. The press release said that Vucic and Godfrey agreed that the two countries need more projects of common interest and stressed the importance of the engagement of the International Development Finance Corporation’s regional office.