Vucic: Serbia and RS want best possible relations in region

BELGRADE - Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and Republika Srpska (RS) President Milorad Dodik have met to discuss improvements to the relations between Serbia and RS and stressed that the region's stability was crucial to both sides.

Serbia wants the best possible relations in the region, Vucic told the joint news conference after the meeting on Tuesday.

Serbia supports the territorial integrity of Bosnia-Herzegovina and RS as an entity within it and it is Serbia's obligation to keep things that way, he stated.

Serbia believes it is important to address all problems within Bosnia-Herzegovina in a peaceful way and by reaching an agreement between all three major ethnic communities, he noted.

"Both RS and Bosnia-Herzegovina will have our support," Vucic underscored.

He said that he had agreed with Dodik that political and economic stability in the region were crucial to both Serbia and RS, and that both sides would work together to protect that stability.

"Serbia's view is that we are all small enough to be able to reach bigger and more serious markets and achieve more within our economies only by working together," he remarked.

The two officials discussed also joint projects and trends within the region after elections in some of the countries.