Spanish support for Serbian EU integration

Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos says his country supports Serbia ’s EU integration and liberalization of the visa regime for Serbian citizens. Moratinos made the comments during a meeting in Madrid yesterday with Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic and Interior Minister Ivica Dacic. Spanish support for Serbian EU integration In a telephone statement to Beta, Dacic said that he and Jeremic had observed at the meeting with Moratinos that “Spain is one of Serbia’s most important foreign political partners in the EU.“ The interior minister said that they had thanked Moratinos for “the principled position Spain has adopted in relation to the most important issue for Serbia—Kosovo.“ In talks with his Spanish counterpart Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, Dacic said that an agreement had been reached to sign an agreement in Belgrade on police cooperation, combating all forms of organized crime, as well as a readmissions treaty. It was also agreed to urgently implement an agreement between the two countries on the validity of drivers’ licences. In their capacities as members of their respective political parties, the Democratic Party (DS) and the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), Jeremic and Dacic attended the Party of European Socialists (PES) conference taking place in Madrid. Dacic stressed that this was “the first time in the SPS’s history that it was attending a conference of the PES, which brings together socialist and social democratic parties from all round Europe.“ He added that during the conference he had spoken with Socialist International President Giorgos Papandreou about the resumption of the procedure for the SPS’s accession and that it had been agreed that “regardless of the formal course of that procedure, the SPS would participate in all International and PES activities.“ Vuk Jeremic, Ivica Dacic (FoNet, archive)

Spanish support for Serbian EU integration

In a telephone statement to Beta, Dačić said that he and Jeremić had observed at the meeting with Moratinos that “Spain is one of Serbia’s most important foreign political partners in the EU.“

The interior minister said that they had thanked Moratinos for “the principled position Spain has adopted in relation to the most important issue for Serbia—Kosovo.“

In talks with his Spanish counterpart Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, Dačić said that an agreement had been reached to sign an agreement in Belgrade on police cooperation, combating all forms of organized crime, as well as a readmissions treaty.

It was also agreed to urgently implement an agreement between the two countries on the validity of drivers’ licences.

In their capacities as members of their respective political parties, the Democratic Party (DS) and the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), Jeremić and Dačić attended the Party of European Socialists (PES) conference taking place in Madrid.

Dačić stressed that this was “the first time in the SPS’s history that it was attending a conference of the PES, which brings together socialist and social democratic parties from all round Europe.“

He added that during the conference he had spoken with Socialist International President Giorgos Papandreou about the resumption of the procedure for the SPS’s accession and that it had been agreed that “regardless of the formal course of that procedure, the SPS would participate in all International and PES activities.“