The Republic of Serbia welcomes the recently held historic summit between President of the Republic of Korea Moon Jae-in and Supreme Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Kim Jong-un, extending its full support to the two sides’ efforts to achieve peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula through dialogue.

Confident that the Summit has opened a new era in the relations between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea, in line with the newly agreed Panmunjeom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification of the Korean Peninsula, the Republic of Serbia finds that this is an important step towards full denuclearization and the achievement of peace and all-round prosperity on the Korean Peninsula.

As a sincere friend of both countries, Serbia will continue to extend its wholehearted support to all efforts aimed at the establishment of permanent peace, to the benefit of not only their citizens, but of the world at large as well.

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First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia Ivica Dacic visited Tara Gandhi, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi today.

Ms. Tara Gandhi conveyed to Minister Dacic her recollections of the period when she lived with Mahatma Gandhi, a time when a new, democratic and independent India came into being.

Minister Dacic pointed to the high esteem in which Serbian people continued to hold Mahatma Gandhi to this day. As Tara Gandhi wrote a book about the time she spent beside Mahatma, the Serbian Foreign Minister suggested that her book be translated to Serbian and published in our country.

Ms. Tara Gandhi was pleased to accept this proposal and promised the Minister that, once the book went to print, she would visit Belgrade as his guest.

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First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia Ivica Dacic met today in New Delhi with his host, Mrs. Sushma Swaraj, Minister of External Affairs of the Republic of India.

In the talks, the officials expressed mutual pleasure with the decades-long traditional friendly relations and understanding between the two countries, particularly in the year marking the 70th anniversary since the establishment of diplomatic relations.

Both sides conveyed readiness for the intensification of bilateral high and top-level political dialogue, as well as for the promotion of cooperation in all areas of mutual interest, particularly in the economy. It was noted that there was room for improvement of cooperation in the fields of automotive, tractor, agriculture and food industries, IT sector, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, scientific-technical and cultural cooperation, film, tourism and sports.

Minister Dacic extended an invitation to the Republic of India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to visit the Republic of Serbia, which she accepted with pleasure.

Furthermore, both sides pleased with the signing of the Agreement on Cooperation in the Fields of Culture, Art, Youth, Sports and the Mass Media.

On this occasion, the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia conveyed to Minister Swaraj the gratitude of the Serbian Government and people for India’s support to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Serbia and for its non-recognition of the unilaterally declared independence of “Kosovo”, also expressing his belief that India would maintain this position in the future as well.

Minister Sushma Swaraj underlined that India did not perceive countries as big or small, and that it instead only valued if they were friendly or not, emphasizing that Serbia most certainly was a friendly country.

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First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia Ivica Dacic, on his official visit to India, held a lecture “Serbia in the region, Europe and the world” at the renowned Indian Council of World Affairs, which was streamed live via video link.

On this occasion, Minister Dacic informed numerous prominent representatives of Indian and foreign diplomatic, academic and intellectual circles about the current developments in the Western Balkans region and regional cooperation, Serbia’s EU accession process and the situation in Kosovo and Metohija.

In the year marking the 70^th anniversary since the establishment of diplomatic relations with India, the Serbian Foreign Minister recalled the long-standing tradition of friendly relations between the two countries, dating back to the creation of the Non-Aligned Movement, but also to the time prior to their formal establishment and the 1926 visit to Belgrade by Rabindranath Tagore, the great Indian thinker and Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature.

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