Brnabic meets with PMs of Netherlands, Luxembourg

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met with the PMs of The Netherlands and Luxembourg, Mark Rutte and Xavier Bettel, in Belgrade on Monday evening, and said their visit to Serbia represented a unique and a very important political event.

She noted the visit demonstrated that bilateral relations with the two countries were very good and that political dialogue had been particularly stepped up as a result of the visit, the Serbian government said in a statement.

She said Serbia was seeing successful economic cooperation with The Netherlands and Luxembourg, two of its most important economic partners, and an inflow of investment from those countries.

Brnabic said EU integration was Serbia's foreign policy priority and that support from The Netherlands and Luxembourg was crucial for accelerating the process.

Brnabic informed Rutte and Bettel of reforms Serbia was carrying out on that path, especially in the fields of the judiciary, media freedoms and safety of journalists.

She said Belgrade was fully committed to dialogue with Pristina and added that the issue of unreserved protection for, and ensuring safety to, the Serb community in Kosovo-Metohija was equally important to Belgrade.

We are committed to preservation of peace and stability in Kosovo-Metohija and to finding a solution through dialogue, as also testified by the constructiveness continuously demonstrated by the Serbian side, Brnabic noted.

The parties agreed on the significance of maintaining peace and stability in the Balkans and the importance of the European perspective of Serbia and the entire Western Balkans, the statement also said.