Serbia Opening Trade to East and West

Belgrade, Dec 8th, 2009 (Source: Serbia Today) – Ministry of Trade Services Slobodan Milosavljevic and Minister of the Moscow City Government Mikhail Mikhailovich Vyshegorodtsev will open trade talks, at a joint expert working group for commercial and economic cooperation between the Serbian government and the City of Moscow December 8th.
The working group co-presidents Milosavljevic and Vyshegorodtsev will open the meeting, to discuss the possibilities for improving economic cooperation.
The Moscow City delegation is comprised of representatives of the City Government, the Moscow Chamber of Industry and Commerce, the Moscow Centre for Developing Entrepreneurship and businessmen from this city.
Minister Vyshegorodtsev will also meet with Serbian Minister of Infrastructure Milutin Mrkonjic and Belgrade mayor Dragan Djilas.
On the second day of the visit the Moscow delegation will visit Jagodina and meet with Jagodina mayor Dragan Markovic. Ministers Milosavljevic and Vyshegorodtsev will also sign the protocol of the working group’s meeting.
Today may also see the implementation of the Interim Trade Agreement with the EU, and as former head of the government EU integration office Tanja Miscevic says this will have an immediate impact on trade margins.
"If the European Union council of foreign ministers decided today or tomorrow to implement the Interim Trade Agreement with Serbia, Serbia's exporters will receive guarantees that they may continue to export their products tax free to the EU countries," Miscevic, who now teaches at the Faculty of Political Science, told Belgrade daily Politika on Monday.
“Serbia would thus have true agreement relations with the Union, instead of a unilateral regime, and the legal relations between a state and the EU is the most important thing,” Mrs. Miscevic said .