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Belgrade/Bratislava – Slovakia respects Serbia’s territorial integrity and can by no means betray it on the difficulty of Kosovo, declared Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) on Thursday in Belgrade after assembly Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić. Fico specified that Slovakia respects Serbia’s accession negotiations with the European Union and can redeploy its troopers to NATO’s peacekeeping mission (KFOR), studies the particular correspondent of TASR.
Fico expressed curiosity in guaranteeing that the connection between Slovakia and Serbia is predicated on mutual help and belief. “We are able to depend on one another,” he mentioned.
Vučić described Fico as “one of the necessary and vital world leaders.” The Serbian president defined that they mentioned strategic points, bilateral relations, and enhancing cooperation within the economic system and different business sectors.
In accordance with Fico, the dialog with Vučić exhibits the potential of debates by politicians advocating “impartial sovereign insurance policies based mostly on the ideas of worldwide legislation and non-interference within the inside issues of one other nation.” He considers it a mistake that they don’t meet extra typically. They agreed to go to Moscow collectively in Could subsequent 12 months.
The Slovak Prime Minister additionally praised Serbia’s “glorious outcomes” and financial improvement. He rhetorically requested what some Western nations would give for such improvement.
In accordance with him, Slovakia absolutely respects Serbia’s accession negotiations with the European Union, and it’s as much as Serbia to decide on its path. He supplied Vučić Slovakia’s experiences from the European integration course of. Nonetheless, he additionally expressed the assumption that Slovakia made “tragic errors” within the accession course of – for instance, the state’s vitality safety was weakened. He joked that Slovakia would share these errors if Serbia needed to know.
The leaders additionally mentioned the Slovak group in Serbia. In accordance with Fico, these are Slovaks who love Serbia because the nation they reside in however concurrently attempt to protect what they dropped at Serbia.
In Belgrade, Fico additionally opened a enterprise discussion board attended by a number of dozen Slovak entrepreneurs. The Slovak Funding and Commerce Improvement Company (SARIO) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Serbian Chamber of Commerce on the discussion board. (November 21)
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