Drašković: Improve Black Sea group ties with EU

The Serbian FM visited BSEC Secretary-General Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos at the organization's HQs in Istanbul.

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Thursday, 30.11.2006.

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Drašković: Improve Black Sea group ties with EU

The Turkish Daily News reports that the Serbian foreign ministerplans to establish closer organizational ties with observer state Germany as it assumes the rotating EU presidency.

Serbia holds the rotating six-month chairmanship of BSEC, to which Turkey will succeed next May, just in time to host the organization's 15th anniversary celebration in June, the Istanbul daily reports.

After meeting Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos, Drašković met with six ambassadors of BSEC members before attending a dinner hosted in his honor by the BSEC leader.

Drašković's comments echoed those he made in Moscow at the beginning of November when Serbia took over the chairmanship from Russia.

Bearing in mind that two BSEC countries, Bulgaria and Romania, will join the EU during the Serbian chairmanship, Serbia will promote BSEC's cooperation with appropriate EU institutions and spearhead the efforts to coordinate and strengthen the organization's relations with those institutions. Serbia would seek to establish appropriate contacts with Germany during its presidency of the European Union in the first half of 2007, the daily quotes Drašković.

The BSEC has since 1992 united the littoral states of the Black Sea and other interested countries in common efforts to improve trade, communication and transport links among member states. Members include Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine. The number of member states increased to 12 upon the accession of Serbia and Montenegro in April 2004.

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