Dacic: Good job done for Serbia in Jakarta

JAKARTA - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said on Tuesday a good job for Serbia had been done in Jakarta, where he on Monday signed a document on Serbia's accession to the ASEAN treaty.

After attending the official opening ceremony of the 43rd ASEAN summit in Jakarta, Dacic said ASEAN had been in existence for over 50 years.

Signing the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia does not make Serbia an ASEAN member state, Dacic said, noting that Serbia had acceded to the treaty.

"It (the ASEAN region) is a territory with a population of over 600 mln and a GDP worth thousands of billions of dollars that, as they themselves say, represents the epicentre of economic growth. That is important for our country because we now have an external trade volume of around 700 mln dollars and we expect it to possibly exceed 1 bln dollars this year," Dacic told Serbian...