BELGRADE, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Serbia wants to renew good economic relations with Morocco and engage in joint projects, Serbian officials assured visiting Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita on Tuesday during their meetings.
Bourita was the first Moroccan foreign minister to visit Serbia in 14 years. Bourita met his Serbian counterpart Ivica Dacic and President Aleksandar Vucic and talked about ways to improve the cooperation in economy as well as culture, sports and education.
Dacic said that the diplomatic relations between Serbia and Morocco are in an ascending stage, and that they have potentials to improve their economic cooperation, according to a government statement.
"Serbia's aim is to have the cooperation as it was in the period of (Josip Broz) Tito," Dacic said, referring to the former Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito.
The two countries, Dacic said, will hold a business council next week in order to improve economic cooperation. And the mixed economic commissions which operated in the past will be activated once again, he added.
Bourita said that Morocco did not and will not recognize the unilaterally-declared independence of Serbian southern province of Kosovo, as the country opposes any unilateral act, and "understands Serbia's worries because its own territorial integrity is endangered".
He said the relations between the two countries are developing well, and announced increased cooperation in areas of culture, education and sports in the future, as well as efforts to better use potentials for economic exchange in agriculture and automobile industry.
Bourita and Serbian Minister of Sport and Youth Vanja Udovicic signed a Memorandum of Cooperation on Youth and Sport Structures between Serbia and Morocco.
Bourita invited Vucic to visit Morocco to meet King Mohammed VI, while the Serbian President thanked him for the consistent policy of Morocco towards Serbia, in accordance to international law.
