First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia Ivica Dacic received today a delegation of the Federal Republic of Nigeria headed by Bulus Lolo, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria.

In the talks they confirmed the traditionally good and friendly relations existing between the two countries for several decades.

At the meeting both sides expressed interest in concretizing the close ties by way of signing a number of bilateral agreements, as well as in the strengthening of economic relations, and also reached an agreement on the exchange of top-level visits.

Minister Dacic expressed solidarity with the friendly people of Nigeria exposed to attacks of the Boko Haram terrorist organization, while Permanent Secretary Lolo presented more detail on the progress made in the past year in the fight against that terrorist organization.