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Serbia: Brnabic, ready to open 5 new chapters in December

PM in Brussels said dialogue with Pristina is a national issue

16 November, 16:11
(ANSA) - BRUXELLES - Serbia is "ready" to open five new negotiating chapters with the EU next December to continue on its way to the EU membership, Serbia's Prime Minister, Ana Brnabic, told journalists after the 4th EU-Serbia Stabilisation and Association Council in Brussels. "Today we presented our negotiation position on Chapter 13 on fisheries," the Prime Minister said. Brnabic also "expects" some of these chapters, "three or four", "to be opened in December". Negotiating Chapters 6 on Company law, 30 on External Relations, 33 on Financial and Budgetary Dervices) and 9 on Financial Services have been mentioned, sources of the Commission say. Belgrade has to use "the next six, seven months in the best possible way, in the interest of the whole region," Brnabic added. EU integration "is the main strategic objective" of the Serbian government, and the Prime Minister explained that "now that we (Belgrade) have achieved fiscal and economic stability, we can focus on other issues such as the implementation of the reforms on the rule of law and justice, for chapters 23 and 24 ". Brnabic also focused on the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina: "This is an issue of national interest" and "I invite Pristina to sit down and create the Community of Serbian Municipalities" in Kosovo, she said.(ANSA).

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