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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

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Serbia, China proud of their steel friendship

Belgrade, 29 May 2021

Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikola Selakovic stated today, after a meeting in Guiyang with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, that the two countries will continue to work on improving political, economic and all other relations, although they are currently at their highest level in our modern history.

This was a unique opportunity to discuss the existing relations between Serbia and China and their future improvement. We are two countries that have a comprehensive strategic partnership and that are proud of their steel friendship, marked by the best relations between our presidents Aleksandar Vucic and Xi Jinping. Those relations were the best stimulus for the development of our bilateral relations, said Selakovic.

Selakovic stated that he talked with his Chinese colleague about cooperation and mutual support in international forums and organisations, because our countries are fully committed to respecting the international legal order and the UN Charter.

Serbia is proud of the fact that it has the support of the People's Republic of China regarding the issue of Kosovo and Metohija. Your support, as well as the support of your ministry, is something that contributes to our difficult position being less difficult and to feeling stronger in the fight to resist the pressure on the issue of Kosovo and Metohija, Selakovic said.

Recalling that since the historic visit of President Xi Jinping to Serbia in 2016, the trade exchange of our countries has tripled, and Serbian exports to China have increased 15 times over, he stated that these are exact and visible results of our good political and economic cooperation.

We completely agreed on all the issues we discussed and we will be there for each other as in previous years. We expect the next historic visit of President Xi Jinping, because such was his previous visit, after which everything started to develop in a good direction, Selakovic pointed out.

Minister Wang Yi stated that the Chinese and Serbian peoples are heroic and peoples of integrity, that they fought side by side and supported each other in the fight for their sovereignty and territorial integrity, and that today they crossed their arms on the path to progress.

It has been proven that the friendship and cooperation between China and Serbia have contributed to the well-being of our peoples, international relations, and the protection of international equality and justice, he noted, adding that there is a mutual desire to promote friendship and comprehensive strategic partnership.

Wang Yi pointed out that our two countries will continue to support each other on issues of common interest, but also that they will continue economic cooperation, cooperation in the field of education, as well as internationally, and that they will continue to show solidarity in the fight against COVID-19.