{"id":14337,"date":"2014-02-06T09:12:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T08:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2014\/02\/20140206_serbia_visita_valensise-2\/"},"modified":"2014-02-06T09:12:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T08:12:33","slug":"20140206_serbia_visita_valensise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2014\/02\/20140206_serbia_visita_valensise\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy-Serbia &#8211; Valensise in Belgrade, Europe and business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>On a visit following the 21 January launch of Serbia\u2019s EU accession negotiations, the Foreign Ministry\u2019s Secretary General Michele Valensise will hold meetings today in Belgrade in confirmation of Italy\u2019s support for Serbia\u2019s EU membership and to promote economic cooperation aimed at fostering the growth of Italian businesses there. <\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Europe<\/STRONG><STRONG> and economic cooperation<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Valensise will discuss these topics with Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Snezana Jankovic, along with regional issues and dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina. Ahead of Italy\u2019s EU presidency in the second half of this year, the S-G will also meet with Serbia\u2019s head negotiator with the EU, Tanja Miscevic to examine possible forms of Italian assistance, particularly in the sectors of justice and home affairs. These will also be the themes Ambassador Valensise will discuss with Secretary of State for Home Affairs Vanja Vukic and Secretary of State for Justice Cedomir Backovic.<STRONG><\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Growth Diplomacy<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Growth diplomacy, one of the Italian foreign ministry\u2019s priorities and strongly supported by Minister Emma Bonino, will be the focus of Valensise\u2019s encounters with the ministers and officials of Serbia\u2019s economic ministries, along with representatives of Italian unions and businesses operating in Serbia. Italy, a traditional supporter of Belgrade\u2019s European aspirations, was Serbia\u2019s top trade partner and foreign investor in 2013.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On a visit following the 21 January launch of Serbia\u2019s EU accession negotiations, the Foreign Ministry\u2019s Secretary General Michele Valensise will hold meetings today in Belgrade in confirmation of Italy\u2019s support for Serbia\u2019s EU membership and to promote economic cooperation aimed at fostering the growth of Italian businesses there. Europe and economic cooperation Valensise will [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9,42],"class_list":["post-14337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-europa","tag-unione-europea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}