Serbian President set to meet with UN chief

On Thursday, he is expected to meet with the EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton. Reports said that they would discuss continued EU integration of Serbia.

Previously, Tadić met with Ashton to agree on a Kosovo resolution that was sent to the UN General Assembly.

“This will be our continued dialogue, considering the last Brussels meeting, when we agreed that 28 European countries were submitting a resolution after the ICJ opinion,” said Tadić.

When it comes to a dialogue with Kosovo Albanian representatives, he stated it was “early to talk about modalities”.

Tadić is in New York for the 65th UN General Assembly session, where on Monday he told a plenary session that Serbia is fully committed to meeting the United Nations’ millennium developmental goals and should achieve them by 2015.

“We are working very hard to establish truly sustainable and socially responsible long-term development, in line with the overall strategic intent of the Millennium Development Goals”, he said.

Tadić said Serbia was working toward those goals through the Strategy for Reducing Poverty, “an integral part of the Serbian government’s efforts to achieve our central strategic priority: membership in the European Union,” he said in his speech.

Tadić stated that his country was fully dedicated to making the millennium goals a priority in legislative activity, adding that Serbia was willing, ready and able to help other countries in their efforts.