Minister Pusić holds series of bilateral talks

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Vesna Pusić held several bilateral meetings with the high officials attending the inauguration of Croatia’s new President Kolinda Grabar Kitarović on Sunday

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Vesna Pusić held several bilateral meetings with the high officials attending the inauguration of Croatia’s new President Kolinda Grabar Kitarović on Sunday.

Pusić and Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić discussed the two countries’ relations as well as outstanding issues and how to resolve them. “We also talked about cooperation on cross-border projects and EU-backed projects in general,” Pusić said, adding that she and Vučić also discussed Serbia’s progress towards the EU as well as what lay ahead in the two countries’ bilateral and economic relations.

In a joint statement after the meeting, Vučić said that the two officials had discussed “a portfolio of outstanding issues, but primarily the future - how we will cooperate, how we can help one another in enhancing our economic and political cooperation.” He said he believed Croatia was a country focused on the future. "We are really satisfied and grateful because it seems that Croatia, too, is turned to the future in that regard. Serbia definitely is, we want good relations with Croatia and we are not hiding it," the Serbian prime minister said, adding: "What I am saying in Zagreb I am also saying in Belgrade. We will continue on that path and I believe that we will have concrete results.”  He said that each meeting contributed to the two countries’ relations and was hopeful that the trend would continue.

Pusić also met with Moroccan FM Salaheddine Mezouar, Sudanese FM Ali Ahmed Karti, Georgian FM Tamara Beruchashvili, French Secretary of State for European Affairs Harlem Désir and the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall.

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