Djuric: Serbia confirmed regional cooperation is backbone of its foreign policy

BERLIN - At Tuesday's ministerial meeting of the Berlin Process, which marked a decade of the initiative, Serbia reconfirmed that regional cooperation is the backbone of its foreign policy, says Serbian FM Marko Djuric.

"We sent a strong message that we will work strongly with each of our neighbours individually to advance our economic cooperation, transport connectivity, scientific and youth exchanges between our countries and nations, and work on resolving issues from the past in a way that will not undermine the national interests of neither side involved," Djuric said on Tuesday evening.

He added that discussions at the Berlin forum had been by no means easy for Serbia as there had been many open as well as thinly veiled or covert attacks on its political positions, the Serbian MFA said in a statement.

"I tried to represent Serbian interests in a dignified...