Armenian president receives foreign minister of Serbia

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan today received Serbian Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkic, according to the presidential press service. S. Sargsyan stressed the importance of the foreign minister’s visit in terms of continuing the Armenian-Serbian dialog at the high level and promoting the agenda of bilateral cooperation.

In his words, the centuries-old ties between Armenia and Serbia have had various manifestations of friendship. The president stated that the Armenian people gratefully remember the Serbian pilots killed in a crash near Yerevan while coming to the rescue of Armenia after the 1988 devastating earthquake in Spitak.

Both the president and the Serbian foreign minister underlined the importance of high-level visits, thanks to which bilateral relations and cooperation in a number of spheres have become active in recent years.

The interlocutors expressed willingness to continue efforts aimed at maintaining and developing the positive dynamics, noting the existence of an unfulfilled potential in political, cultural and some other spheres of mutual interest as well as the potential for cooperation in international organizations.

The significance of mutually beneficial and close cooperation during Serbia’s chairmanship of the OSCE in 2015 was also stressed at the meeting.