First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic received today Head of the Division for Eastern Partnership, Regional Cooperation and OSCE at the European External Action Service (EEAS) Richard Tibbels and the EU Permanent Representative to the OSCE Ambassador Thierry Bechet. The talks were also attended by Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport and Head of the Delegation's Political Section Luca Bianconi.

Views on Serbia's EU integration process and its dialogue with the EU during the Serbian OSCE chairmanship in 2015 were exchanged at the meeting.

The EEAS Delegation expressed its full support for Serbia's forthcoming OSCE chairmanship and readiness for cooperation during the course of next year following Serbia's assumption of the chairmanship. EU diplomats added that our successful chairmanship would be theirs as well.