Republic of Serbia in PfP

Republic of Serbia in PfP
Republic of Serbia was invited to join PfP at Riga Summit in December 2006 together with Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro. IN line with the invitation and the decision of the Government of Serbia, the President of the Republic of Serbia Boris Tadic signed the Framework Document in Brussels on 14 December 2006 which enabled Serbia to become a full member of PfP. The Presentation Document, presented by Vuk Jeremic, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, at the NATO HQ on 5 September 2007 also underpins the participation of Serbia in PfP in line with its financial, material, human and other resources.

In the current security environment, Serbia is not able to respond to threats and security challenges posed against it independently especially to those threats of global and transnational importance. Furthermore, one of Serbia’s most important requests is to maintain its territorial integrity. Therefore the solution of the status of Kosovo and Metohija represents an important step for the future intensity and scope of cooperation between Serbia and NATO. Serbia is currently undergoing an all reaching transition and also a complete reform of the system of security and defence which is mainly in line with all the ongoing processes in all PfP partner countries.

Dedicated  to promoting cooperation and joint action with NATO member states and other partner countries on developing a global, regional and national security, Serbia expresses its readiness to accept its part of responsibility for maintaining permanent peace and stability in the region, to participate in UN mandated peace missions in order to reach the level of interoperability of NATO member states’ armies. In accordance with this, Serbia chose the following eight priority cooperation fields: