Serbia and Azerbaijan "always support each other"

Speaking to reporters after meeting with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev in Baku on Monday - whom he invited to visit Belgrade - Aleksandar Vucic thanked Aliyev for supporting the territorial integrity of Serbia, and added that Serbia also supports Azerbaijan in this regard.

"Mutual support exists and these positions will not change in the future," Vucic said.

"We respect your policy thanks to which you have preserved your country, its unity," Vucic said, addressing Aliyev, and pointed out that this was especially important given that Azerbaijan is "under pressure from various powers" in its region.

"But you have managed to preserve the country and adjust other interests to the interests of Azerbaijan," says Vucic.

Vucic thanked Aliyev for the welcome he received, but also for his engagement so far "and everything he is doing to raise relations between the two countries to as high a level as possible." He added that a session of the Mixed Committee will be held soon, after a long pause.

Vucic also said that he came to Baku along with "half the government" - "because Serbia wants as good relations as possible in as many areas as possible."

"Construction of roads, cooperation in the fields of health, sport, culture... in all these areas we can reach far higher levels," said the president, adding that military-technical and military-educational cooperation is also possible.

He congratulated Aliyev on the fact that Azerbaijan achieved three percent growth in the non-oil sector, and recalled that Serbia has had a surplus in the state budget for the third year in a row, opening up space for cooperation with Azerbaijan and investing in the future.

Vucic noted that he was "probably the...