Serbia's EU membership remains a strategic goal, Kallas says in Belgrade

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00:00EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kala said Serbia's EU membership remains a strategic goal,

00:06but depends on the country's geostrategic choice of direction.

00:10It comes after she met with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic while on a visit to Belgrade.

00:16From my discussions with Serbian political leadership,

00:20it is clear that EU membership remains a strategic goal.

00:25However, I want to emphasize that we need to see actions also to prove and support those words.

00:35Reforms are how Serbia will advance along its EU path.

00:41There are no shortcuts for membership. Real progress must be made here in Belgrade.

00:48Kala added that she discussed Vucic's recent trip to Moscow for Russia's Victory Day Parade,

00:53a move that was widely condemned in Brussels.

00:57I really don't understand why it is necessary to stand side by side

01:04with the person who is conducting this horrible war in Ukraine.

01:10And President Vucic was explaining his side of the story.

01:14So yes, we had a very extensive discussion about this.

01:19Vucic has been criticized for maintaining close relations with Russia and China

01:23while formally saying that he wants Serbia to join the EU.

01:27Kala also emphasized the need to normalize relations with Kosovo,

01:31Serbia's former province which declared its independence in 2008.

01:35Most Western countries recognize its independence, but Serbia does not.

01:40Brussels-mediated talks between the two have long been frozen.

01:43Yet Kala said normalization is fundamental for Serbia's European future.

01:47And then the two have long been frozen.

01:48Thank you so much,

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