Orlic thanks Angola for supporting Serbia's territorial integrity

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Vladimir Orlic received Angola's newly-appointed Ambassador to Belgrade Emilio Miguel de Carvalho Sobrinho on Friday and thanked him for his country's principled position and support to the territorial integrity of Serbia.

By deciding against recognising the so-called "Kosovo" Angola has not only confirmed its friendship with Serbia but also came to the defence of international law and peace together with Serbia, a statement from the Serbian parliament quoted Orlic as saying.

He said Thursday's meeting of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue in Brussels had confirmed Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, as well as Belgrade, was the "most significant factor for maintaining peace and stability in the region and sincerely committed to dialogue and ready to speak in a language of compromise, as well as to act in a responsible, serious and principled manner," Orlic said.

The meeting also confirmed Albin Kurti and Pristina are the main generator of conflicts, the source of the problems and the biggest threat to peace, he added.

"The EU, too, sees that clearly now, and many others in the world have been pointing to the same for a long time now," Orlic said, thanking Angola for looking at the problems in the right way and speaking about it openly.

He said the friendship between the two countries was a long-standing one and noted that he was pleased his country had been one of the first to provide major support to Angola's independence struggle.

Sobrinho confirmed the friendship between the two countries and expressed readiness to invest every additional effort to maintain the relationship and strengthen it further by stepping up cooperation in various fields.

Orlic and Sobrinho agreed that all potentials for development of Serbia-Angola cooperation, as well as interparliamentary cooperation, must be utilised, above all, through contacts between members of parliamentary friendship groups, the statement also said.