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Balkans: Turkish president Erdogan in Serbia on October 7

Bilateral meeting with Serbia, trilateral with Bosnia, highway

26 September, 14:56
(ANSA) - BELGRADE, SEPTEMBER 26 - Turkey's President Redzep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Belgrade on 7 and 8 October to strengthen the country's relationship with Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to the Belgrade-based daily Blic, the Turkish leader will take part, along with eight ministers, in a session of the High Cooperation Council between Turkey and Serbia on the first day of his visit, which aims to intensify political and economic cooperation between the two countries. The next day, according to the newspaper, a trilateral session between Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Turkey will take place in Belgrade. Erdogan, the Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic and the three members of the Bosnian collegial presidency - the Croatian Catholic Zeljko Komsic, who is the current president, the Muslim Bosniak Sefik Saferovic and the Serbian Orthodox Milorad Dodik - will attend the meeting. The schedule includes even a ceremony marking the start of work on the Belgrade-Sarajevo motorway, carried out by Turkish companies. Erdogan's visit to Belgrade should have taken place on August 29, but it was then postponed due to other engagements. (ANSA)
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