Serbia and Montenegro enjoy "intensive" ties - presidents

Serbia and Montenegro enjoy "intensive" ties - presidents

During a friendly and cordial conversation, Nikolic urged further improvement of bilateral relations as a must for maintaining regional stability and progress.

Thanking for the cordial welcome, Vujanovic expressed a readiness to strengthen mutual trust and cooperation at all levels, highlighting cooperation in the economy and major infrastructure projects that would help bring the two countries even closer together.

Statehood Day

Filip Vujanovic, who is also due to be received by Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, is visiting Belgrade as his country is marking its Statehood Day, July 13. He addressed a ceremony in Cetinje on Tuesday evening to say that a decade of Montenegro's renewed independence "confirmed the values and the irreplaceability of a civil and anti-fascist Montenegro."

Vujanovic said the country renewed its independence "to benefit citizens, without being aimed against anybody - not against our closeness with Serbia, with whom we want to have best relations known by the international community, and not against the traditional, centuries-long friendship with Russia."

"We have the right to expect from everyone, especially from friends, to accept that our sovereignty means our right to choose our own path. That path does not mean diverging from anyone, but finding our deserved place in the international community," he said, according to Montenegro's state broadcaster RTCG.