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Italy's Foreign minister, 'Serbia's future lies in Europe'

Di Maio met with Serbian counterpart, Belgrade strategic partner

01 April, 18:33
(ANSA) - ROME, 01 APR - Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio met his Serbian counterpart, Nikola Selakovic, to lay the foundations for a Memorandum of Understanding, underlining that Italy "attributes strategic value to cooperation with Belgrade" and hoping for Serbia's accession into the EU.

"We talked about the prospects for Serbia's European integration that Italy strongly supports - said Di Maio -. We think that Serbia's future lies in Europe. With this objective in mind - he added -, I expressed my hope that Belgrade will give a new impetus to the process of reforms which are necessary to bring the country closer to its European goal." (ANSA).

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