Djuric: Opening strategic dialogue with US would take relations to new level

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Marko Djuric said on Thursday opening a Serbia-US strategic dialogue would significantly boost the relations between the two countries and take them to a new level.

Speaking to Tanjug, Djuric said the opening of the dialogue, due in the coming days, would be an additional impetus to development of cooperation in all areas.

If this were to happen at this time, it would be an exceptional pledge for cooperation with the incoming Trump administration upon the achieved institutional foundations, introducing a certain regularity of active exchanges between ministries and institutions of the two countries that we have never had before, Djuric said.

"That is something I have also fought for years for as Serbia's ambassador to Washington," Djuric added, noting that the cooperation had been initiated years ago due to an awareness that raising the...