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  1. “Alongside the commitment of my country to peace, reconciliation, stability and cooperation, they will help us strengthen the bonds of friendship and good- neighbourliness and facilitate our journey to regional and transregional integration.”

    2016-11-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7803 (2016) · source

  2. “A meeting of the Trilateral Trade Committee of the Republic of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Turkey and an accompanying business forum were held in Ankara on 25 October, and a joint trade and tourist office of the Republic of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina was opened in Istanbul on 26 October. Bringing people together and linking regions and their economics is the most important task that the Republic of Serbia has undertaken to promote in the Western Balkans. I trust and believe that Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the Republic of Serbia's other neighbours, are agreed that we need to continue to work on delivering results. We made a commitment to improve regional cooperation and to take measures to realize numerous projects, especially in the fields of infrastructure, transport and energy.”

    2016-11-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7803 (2016) · source

  3. “The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina also visited Belgrade on 26 July. Traditionally, Bosnia and Herzegovina has been one of the Republic of Serbia's most important foreign trade partners. Both countries are very interested in building and rebuilding infrastructure and a bridge over the Drina River between Ljubovija in Serbia, and Bratunac in Bosnia and Herzegovina is in the process of construction, while the work on energy-generating projects on that river is ongoing. Cooperation between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in the field of joint ventures is also being intensified.”

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  4. “On 20 September, speaking in New York alongside the Mayor of Srebrenica to the panel on reconciliation in the Western Balkans 20 years after the Dayton Agreement, organized by the Clinton Foundation, the Serbian Prime Minister said that we needed each other and that we had to live together, not beside each other. The Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia added that he would otherwise be concerned about the future of the Western Balkans. On 25 July, the Speaker of the Parliament of the Republic of Serbia visited Bosnia and Herzegovina, while the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, Mr. Ivica Dacic', led a Serbian delegation to a ministerial meeting of the Central European Initiative in Banja Luka on 16 June.”

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  5. “To that end, many State or Government officials from the Republic of Serbia visited Bosnia and Herzegovina or played host to their respective counterparts. On 29 May, the President ofthe Republic of Serbia attended the summit of the Brdo-Brijuni process in Sarajevo and the SummithO Business Leaders in Southeast Europe the day before. During the visit, the President of the Republic of Serbia reiterated the importance that the Republic of Serbia attaches to the promotion of regional cooperation and relations, particularly with Bosnia and Herzegovina, while the two sides expressed readiness to prepare an official visit of the Serbian President to Sarajevo.”

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  6. “Proceeding from the Dayton Agreement, Serbia maintains, develops and deepens transparent relations with the Republic of Srpska, while all along striving to establish and expand cooperation with the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina as well. In that context, building confidence and promoting understanding among the peoples and entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina are of paramount importance for their work together and the taking ofjoint decisions aimed at bringing about a better life for all of the citizens of that country. The Republic of Serbia has always worked avidly on establishing better communications and promoting political dialogue with Bosnia and Herzegovina, considering them the basic instruments for the creation of positive relations between the two countries.”

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  7. “We are ready to intensify our cooperation with Bosnia and Herzegovina in a field in which formal conditions exist, including a relevant memorandum of understanding and an action plan. Let me point out that ongoing cooperation has evolved within the framework of regional programmes financed by the Instrument of Pre-Accession funds. The Western Balkans has embarked irreversibly on the road to reconciliation, stability and integration, and European integration in particular. Yet what we need now, perhaps more than ever before, is to build mutual confidence among the three constituent peoples ofBosnia and Herzegovina and its two entities. The country is home to a large number of Serbs, and it is our earnest expectation and hope that they will cooperate with their compatriot Bosniacs and Croats ever more closely and intensely.”

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  8. “As an EU candidate country, the Republic of Serbia has begun the EU membership negotiation process and undertaken relevant reforms. It considers them as policy priorities, yet, all the same, it supports its neighbours in their own activities, in the belief that they will bring about integration in those countries, as well as in the entire region of the Western Balkans, in the European Union. To that end, the Republic of Serbia welcomes the decision of the European Union of 20 September to accept the application of Bosnia and Herzegovina for membership of the European Union, as well as the agreements reached inside the country providing for coordination mechanisms within the process of European integration.”

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  9. “Ever since the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement, it has been proved time and again that the best way to address and resolve outstanding internal issues and the subjects of disagreements among the constituent peoples and the entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina is though dialogue and agreement. In my country's opinion, one such issue is the marking of the Republic of Srpska Day. We therefore support active dialogue as the best way to find acceptable and applicable solutions - a dialogue that implies the readiness of all sides to mutually respect and understand one another. That is in the best interests of the people ofBosnia and Herzegovina, and the only way for the country's integration into larger organizations, including the European Union.”

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  10. “Relations among Bosnia and Herzegovina constituent peoples and its entities were unnecessarily disrupted and the constructive approach that we had all come to expect was not visible. Yet, just as it always has in the past, the Republic of Serbia made every effort to stabilize the situation, calm political passions and overcome differences by agreement, with one all-important goal in mind - that of maintaining peace, bringing progress and ensuring a better future for the people of the Republic of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. It did so by scrupulously respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its neighbour and, lest it should slip the Council's attention, the effort was recognized far and wide.”

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  11. “A next-door neighbour and partner of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Serbia has therefore been staunchly committed to respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, scrupulously strengthened and promoted close cooperation and worked consistently on establishing the bonds of friendship and building mutual confidence, which will not only benefit the relations between the two countries, but will also bring us closer to the family of European nations: integration and membership of the European Union. But not every voyage is always unobstructed plain sailing. In recent months, political winds lifted the ship of the State of Bosnia and Herzegovina and messages that we believe belong in the past were sent.”

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  12. “Respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of States is among the most important principles of international law and is a standard feature of international relations. In a region that had the ill- fortune of being riven by war, ethnic strife and political upheaval in its not-so-distant past, such principles and the future are of particular importance.”

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  13. “The potentials for such cooperation are multiple and many, all the more so as the policy agendas and visions of the future of the two countries are interchangeable, and sometimes even identical. The Dayton Peace Agreement, which ended the tragic conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina some 20 years ago, has been the cornerstone of regional peace and stability. The Republic of Serbia signed the Agreement and is one of its guarantors. Abidance by the letter and spirit of the Agreement is as important today as it has been all these years. After all, it is only by honouring the Agreement and scrupulously implementing its provisions that we can achieve genuine reconciliation, peace and stability, and, by extension, a better life for the people in both Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the Republic of Serbia.”

    2016-11-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7803 (2016) · source

  14. “Regional stability and the development of all-round cooperation with its neighbours continue to be foreign policy priorities ofthe Republic of Serbia. In this regard, my country perceives Bosnia and Herzegovina as a key bilateral partner in the pursuit of the policy of reconciliation and regional cooperation in the Balkans. The Republic of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina are parts of the same process of enlargement of and accession to the European Union (EU), and we welcome and applaud each and every step forward made by our neighbour in that direction, for we consider that the strengthening of regional cooperation in the Western Balkans and South-East Europe in all its aspects is a beeline to membership of the Union.”

    2016-11-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7803 (2016) · source