Vucic: Serbia has done A LOT on its path towards the EU. It's time for a membership!

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said in an interview with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, Edgars Rinkevics, that the EU path is a priority to Serbia.

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With the Foreign Minister of the country which currently holds the EU presidency he discussed the integration of the strategic foreign policy as a priority of Serbia.

- Serbia has done a lot on its European path and is thoroughly preparing for a membership - said the Serbian Prime Minister, stating that the screening process is completed with great success and it would be expected that the European Union, in the opening of its negotiating chapter, accelerates the negotiation process with Serbia.

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The President of the Serbian Government informed the head of the Latvian diplomacy of the social and economic reforms being implemented in Serbia, as well as the progress achieved during the dialogue with representatives of Pristina, last night in Brussels.

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- There has been a rapprochement in some of the questions, working groups will continue to prepare the next round of dialogue - said Vucic.

Minister Rinkevics said that the European Union highly appreciates the reforms undertaken by the Government of Serbia and that Latvia, which is chaired by the Union in the first half of the year,is ready to help, through a joint effort, to achieve the goal of opening the first negotiation chapter.

- If it were to come to that by the end of the Latvian Presidency of the European Union, it would be our success - the minister said to Rinkevics.

(Telegraf.co.uk/ Tanjug)