USA 2022
VLADIMIR MARINKOVIĆ, DIrector of the Serbian-American Friendship Congress
A Friend In Need Is A Friend Indeed Relations between Serbia and America determine the future of our country and the Western Balkans as a whole. It is a fact that Serbia began making dynamic advances from the moment the U.S. began treating our country as a partner, key ally and factor of stability and progress in the region of Southeast Europe
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espite extremely negative events having occurred during these 140 years that have cast a shadow over our alliance, today the time has come when our two countries have excellent cooperation, notes Serbian-American Friendship Congress Director Vladimir Marinković, emphasizing that the Congress has a strong intention to work on developing a strategic partnership and alliance. The Serbian-American Friendship Congress is an organization that deals primarily with improving bilateral relations between Serbia and the U.S., with the main goal being to achieve a strategic partnership between the two countries and peoples. Serbia and
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the U.S. staged a series of events to commemorate and celebrate the 140th anniversary of the establishing of diplomatic relations, reminding our two peoples of their common values, shared history, and political, economic and scientific cooperation. Despite extremely negative events having occurred during these 140 years that have cast a shadow over our alliance, today the time has come when our two countries have excellent cooperation and a developing strategic partnership and alliance. Members of the Serbian-American Friendship Congress include individuals, organizations and institutions that recognize the two countries’ shared interest in expanding cooperation in
all areas of social life, with a special emphasis on promoting civilization’s highest and most humane values, such as democracy, liberal economics, human and minority rights, new technologies, innovation, science, education and culture. Members of the Congress are of the opinion that relations between Serbia and America largely determine the future of our country and the whole of the Western Balkans. The fact is that Serbia began making dynamic advances from the moment the U.S. began treating our country as a partner, key ally and factor of stability and progress in the region of Southeast Europe. This has prompted the Congress to implement a series of specific activities with the aim of bringing our countries closer together and showing Serbia’s citizens the huge benefits Serbia gains from this cooperation. The fact is that the United States is among the largest donors to our country, that American companies employ more than 25,000 people in Serbia, that these investments characteristically spill over onto others and signal to all other democratic countries that Serbia is a stable destination and one of the best for investing this part of Europe. The Congress has dedicated itself mostly to organizing events that promote the tangible results of our cooperation that have a concrete posi-
