Serbian Ambassador: Friendship between Serbia and China ‘steel-strong’

She said the Beijing - Belgrade service is to be launched by Hainan Airlines and that Serbia’s national airline Air Serbia is also soon to introduce direct flights.

“This will undoubtedly contribute to intensifying cooperation on all levels, social exchange and renewed exchange of tourists and tourist visits,” Stefanovic said in an interview with the China Media Group (CMG).

Noting that relations between Serbia and China are at the highest level in their history, the Ambassador admitted that achieving new progress in these relations was a challenge. She said she is expecting some important activities in the coming period, including the signing of a free trade agreement between the two countries.

“We expect the export of Serbian products to China soon to be approved, primarily of different kinds of meat, honey, bee products. Also under way are activities for the realization of other infrastructure project such as the construction of motorways,” Stefanovic added.

The Ambassador said a Chinese Cultural Center, which has already been built, is soon to open in Belgrade.

“The ‘steel-strong friendship’ between Serbia and China symbolizes precisely the mutual support that the two countries provide to each other,” said the Ambassador.

Stefanovic said China and Serbia are true friends who share some good moments, but who have also been through common challenges and difficult times, during the 1999 bombing of Belgrade and of the Chinese embassy, as well as in the fight against the Covid-119 epidemic.

“China was the first country to send medical equipment and aid to Serbia,” she said.

Relations between the two countries are based on mutual understanding, respect, and support in matters of vital national interest to both countries. Serbia fully and consistently supports China and its ‘one country, two systems policy’, while China firmly supports Serbia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, said Stefanovic, adding that the personal friendly relations between the two countries’ presidents add a special quality to bilateral relations.

“The two countries have established a strategic partnership that is constantly deepening, and the citizens of the two countries are connected by ‘a steel-strong friendship’” Ambassador Maja Stefanovic said.