Serbia and Turkey sign documents

Serbia and Turkey sign documents

Ministers of health of Serbia and Turkey, Zlatibor Loncar and Mehmet Muezzinoglu signed an agreement on a donation of 160,000 doses of polio vaccine.

Also signed was a memorandum on the restoration of the Ram Fortress. The document was signed by Deputy Prime Ministers Rasim Ljajic and Yalcin Akdogan.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu arrived in Belgrade for a two-day visit to Serbia on Monday, heading a large business delegation.

Serbian Chamber of Commerce President Marko Cadez said that economic cooperation between Serbia and Turkey was quite successful and trade between the two countries had grown by a fifth at year-end.

Exports also grew, by one-third, against last year, Cadez added.

Speaking at a Serbia-Turkey business forum in Belgrade, Cadez said that there was still a lot of room to use in trade cooperation between the two countries.

If trade cooperation continues to grow, it is possible to see it reaching the EUR 1 billion mark very soon, said Cadez.

Serbia and Turkey are bound by very important, historical ties, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said in Belgrade on Monday, underlining the importance of strengthening them even further.

Addressing the media after a bilateral meeting with Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, Davutoglu said that the Turkish government would be glad to have with Serbia the same arrangement as with Bulgaria and Greece, concerning a top-level council.

According to Davutoglu, the aim is to increase the volume of trade between Serbia and Turkey to USD 1 billion in 2016 from USD 780 million in 2014.

The opportunities that Serbia has offered to Turkish investors are really good. I have come here with 130 business people from Turkey, although it is very hard to arrange such a meeting at the end of the year, Davutoglu said.