Djuric: Relations between Serbia and the United States constantly on the rise

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Serbian Ambassador to the United States Marko Djuric has said that relations between the two countries are continuously on the rise and that their partnership has great and mutually beneficial future.

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"Relations between Serbia and the United States are based on a 140-year-long tradition, unbreakable ties of hundreds of thousands of Serbian Americans with their homeland, political, economic, educational, cultural and scientific ties. We are also working together on overcoming the legacy of the 1990s, and we want to return relations to the paths of old glory," Djuric said in an interview for today's Politika.

Djuric stressed that he recently conveyed the invitation to the US President Joseph Biden from his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic to visit Serbia and said he believes that the visit would take place in the coming period.

"President Biden and President Vucic maintain very good personal communication. I would also like to remind you of President Biden's recent letter to our president, which may not have received enough media attention, and which was content-wise visibly more than routine congratulations," said Djuric.

He added that the personal relationship between the two statesmen which they built through numerous meetings at multilateral gatherings, as well as during Biden's bilateral visits to Serbia during his term as vice president of the United States, is also very useful for Serbia.

"I am optimistic about relations between Serbia and the United States. The foreign policy of great powers is changing gradually and in proportion to their interests, but also to the effort made to harmonize them. Today, Serbia is making serous effort around this relationship. During my term in the United States so far, I've witnessed increased attention and interest in Serbia, as well as in the deepening of our ties across the political spectrum in Washington," Djuric added.

Djuric assessed that the first term of President Vucic "influenced to a defining extent the developmental path of Serbia in our time, and changed the paradigm and focus of Serbian politics and directed the political debate from centuries of debates on ideology, identity and territory to economic and infrastructural, but also technological development and progress in de facto all segments of society."

"That is why I believe that in the first term, President Vucic made a decisive contribution to building the foundations of a new, rejuvenated Serbia that is emerging. After a decade of his predominant influence on politics in Serbia, a new standard has been set when it comes to accountability toward the state for all possible contenders or future holders of state power. That is my personal opinion. However, the people are the ones who gave a politically authoritative assessment of the previous term of President Vucic on April 3," said Djuric.

(Telegraf.rs)