30 November 2021

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia Nikola Selakovic had separate meetings in The Hague today with the President and the Chief Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, Carmel Agius and Serge Brammertz respectively.

Selakovic assessed as very important that he had the opportunity to discuss Serbia's cooperation with the Mechanism with the President and the Chief Prosecutor, especially bearing in mind that the UN Security Council session to discuss the six-month report of the Mechanism's President and Prosecutor would be held on 13 December.

29 November 2021

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia Nikola Selakovic met today in The Hague with the representatives of some of the Dutch companies doing business in our country, as well as with the representative of The Netherlands Enterprise Agency, which operates within the system of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

After the meeting, Selakovic explained that this was one of the new practices that were introduced in the activity of the Serbian MFA, and that it implied organizing smaller business forums during bilateral visits, especially in countries which had a significant number of investors in our country.

Among the nine companies at the forum were important names of the Dutch economy, such as Heineken and Delhaize, but also some that are less familiar to our public, mostly export-oriented companies operating in Serbia.

29 November 2021

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia Nikola Selakovic met today in The Hague with Dutch Foreign Minister Ben Knapen, with whom he discussed Serbia's European path, the "Open Balkan" initiative, the situation in the region, as well as deepening political and economic cooperation.

After the meeting, Minister Selakovic said that the significance of his visit to the Netherlands was multiple, considering not only that 14 years had passed since the last visit by a Serbian Foreign Minister to The Hague, but also the fact that 2021 was the year in which we marked 130 years of diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Serbia.

The Head of Serbian diplomacy said that a lot had changed in those 130 years of our relations, and that he had discussed many issues of common interest with his Dutch counterpart at a meeting that lasted an hour and 40 minutes.

"We touched upon Serbia's European path, progress in the negotiation process. Of course, I presented in that context what Serbia has done so far in the field of economic reforms and reforms in the field of the rule of law, strengthening the state of law, which is evidenced by the number and volume of investments coming to Serbia. These investments would not be arriving to a country that is insecure, and if a stable and predictable legal system was not in place there", Minister Selakovic said.