Speaker Nebojsa Stefanovic was pleased by the meeting and shared the National Assembly’s readiness to further develop bilateral cooperation, at the same time presenting the priorities of the parliament’s work in the upcoming period such as strengthening openness, promoting minority rights and developing its oversight role toward the executive. Within the realms of interparliamentary cooperation he expressed readiness for meetings at the highest level, as well as between parliamentary working bodies, proposing a meeting with the Spanish Parliament Speaker on the margins of the upcoming meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Canada. Speaker Stefanovic expressed gratitude for Spain’s for principled support in the Kosovo-Metohija issue.

H.E. Ambassador Beltrán thanked Speaker Nebojsa Stefanovic for the reception, congratulated him and wished him success, expressing readiness to assist the further development of cooperation. He agreed with strengthening the role of the parliament in overall bilateral relations. As regards the support of Serbia in the issues of territorial integrity and Euro-integration, he assured Speaker Stefanovic that Serbia would continue to enjoy Spain’s support and stressed that there are no open issues between the two countries, adding that the support of Serbia was based on a wide and principled consensus of political subjects and the public in Spain.

Both sides concluded that the economic dimension of their cooperation would be of key importance in the upcoming period. In that context the officials emphasised the importance of developing agricultural, tourist and cultural cooperation in the broadest sense, in view of the similarities between the two cultures.