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Serbia opens chapters 17, 18 in EU accession negotiations

Belgrade/Brussels, 10 December 2018

The Republic of Serbia has opened today at the Intergovernmental Conference at the Europa building in Brussels two new chapters in the EU accession negotiations: Chapter 17 - Economic and Monetary Policy and Chapter 18 - Statistics.

The delegation of the Republic of Serbia was led by Minister of European Integration Jadranka Joksimovic.

Speaking at a press conference after the Intergovernmental Conference, Joksimovic expressed her gratitude to EU members who supported the opening of the chapters with Serbia, and added that 19 countries proposed opening three chapters instead of two.

I want to assure our European partners that they have a serious interlocutor in Serbia, dedicated to the efforts to maintain regional peace and stability, Joksimovic said, adding that she is not dissatisfied with the fact that only two negotiating chapters have been opened today.

Joksimovic said that at the Intergovernmental Conference she expressed gratitude to Austria which kept the EU Enlargement on its agenda of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union in second half of 2018.

I have also informed Brussels that we are very worried about what Pristina continues to do, contrary to European values, and that it announces new measures. I have asked our friends and partners from the EU not to make concessions to us, but that values and principles of the EU become familiar to others too, especially to Pristina and Albania, which supported the non-European measures of Pristina authorities, Joksimovic stated.