{"id":7919,"date":"2021-01-14T14:14:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T13:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/?p=7919"},"modified":"2021-01-22T15:08:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T14:08:23","slug":"visit-of-h-e-nikola-selakovic-minister-of-foreign-affairs-of-the-republic-of-serbia-to-the-danube-commission-18th-december-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/en\/2021\/01\/14\/visit-of-h-e-nikola-selakovic-minister-of-foreign-affairs-of-the-republic-of-serbia-to-the-danube-commission-18th-december-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit of H.E. Nikola Selakovi\u0107, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia,  to the Danube Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 18<sup>th<\/sup> December 2020, during his working visit to Hungary, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, H.E. Nikola Selakovi\u0107, paid a visit to the Danube Commission. At the headquarter of Danube Commission he met the newly elected presidency of Danube Commission and the leadership of its Secretariat to discuss the current situation of navigation on the Danube, as well as future activities of the DC with a focus on the importance of the Republic of Serbia on international waterways.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director General of the DC Secretariat, Mr. Manfred Seitz pointed out the achievements of the Republic of Serbia in rehabilitation of ports, waterway maintenance, dragging works and investments in Iron Gates rehabilitation for an economic success of Serbia on the Danube as a consequence. That was possible due to the active navigation policy of Serbian institutions, as well as to the functional working plans and instruments in line with the river engineering projects.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7923 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Selakovic_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Selakovic_01.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Selakovic_01-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Selakovic_01-768x430.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Minister Selakovi\u0107 stressed the importance of fiscal consolidation carried out by the Serbian Government since 2014, which enabled to invest into infrastructure projects, inclusively with reference to the Danube as an international waterway, paying attention to the environmental issues at the same time. Particular emphasis was placed on investments in ports in the Republic of Serbia since 2015, by building of 9 new ports and modernization of other 4. Minister affirmed Serbia\u2019s commitment to further support the improvement of the DC\u2019s activities, together with the modernization its legal framework, as a sincere partner for all strategic goals of new presidency of DC.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7929 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Selakovic_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Selakovic_02.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Selakovic_02-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Selakovic_02-768x662.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Representative of Hungary and the newly elected Secretary of the DC, H.E. Ambassador Zsuzsanna R\u00e9p\u00e1s, underlined the importance of DC for Hungary as a host country, the need for further cooperation among the DC member states in scope of development of navigation and ports on the Danube and also to keep the Danube as natural river.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was also attended by the Representative of Serbia to the DC, H.E. Ambassador Ivan Todorov, elected as Vice-President of the DC at the 94<sup>th<\/sup> session of the DC, held on 11<sup>th<\/sup> December 2020.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7925 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Selakovic_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Selakovic_03.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Selakovic_03-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Selakovic_03-768x629.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 18<sup>th<\/sup> December 2020, during his working visit to Hungary, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, H.E. Nikola Selakovi\u0107, paid a visit to the Danube Commission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danubecommission.org\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}