Serbian, Croatian premiers meet in bid to thaw relations
Bucharest, January 17 (AZERTAC). The visiting Croatian Prime Minister, Zoran Milanovic, and his host, Serbian Prime Minister, Ivica Dacic, held their first working meeting in Belgrade on Wednesday to discuss outstanding issues in their bilateral relations including refugee returns, tenancy rights, the prosecution of war crimes, the border demarcation and the genocide lawsuits the two countries filed against each other before the International Court of Justice as well as economic cooperation and European integration processes.
"I have come to Belgrade to see whether we can make things better," Croatia`s Milanovic told the joint news conference after their talks.
In the past years both countries have undergone difficult periods, and it is on the two government to "do reasonably what we have to", he added.
He said that, perhaps, the meeting might have taken place before, but it has occurred now when tensions have cooled down.
Dacic said that Croatia-Serbia relations were crucial for the region and it was important that the two governments were cooperating.
"We have discussed important topics awaiting the two countries and our relations should be developed towards normalization," Dacic said.
He said they had not avoided the topics from the recent past but "we must cooperate and develop relations in all segments as we are next-door neighbours."
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