President Vucic welcomes Italian Deputy PM Salvini in Belgrade

Photo: Tanjug/Milos Milivojevic

President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic welcomed on Monday afternoon in Belgrade Deputy Italian PM and Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salvini.

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Vucic welcomed Salvini at Tolstoy Club, the former Club of State Representatives, together with Deputy Serbian PM and Minister of Economy Adriana Mesarovic, Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Aleksandra Sofronijevic, and Minister of Internal and Foreign Trade Jagoda Lazarevic, while the Italian official was accompanied by the Italian ambassador to Serbia, Luca Gori.

Immediately afterwards, Serbian and Italian delegations held their meeting in Topcider.

Salvini is on a two-day official visit to Belgrade until July 7, and the goal of the visit, as previously announced by the Italian Government, is to further strengthen cooperation between the two countries, with a special focus on infrastructure, traffic and economic development.

Vucic and Salvini previously met at the highest level in May 2019 in Rome, when Salvini served as Italian interior minister, and at the time confirmed Italy's support for Serbia's accession to the European Union.

Last year in August, the president of Serbia also hosted the prime minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, and during that working visit, a dinner was held during which bilateral relations and the process of Serbia's EU integration were discussed.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)