Visit by the Crowned Prince of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Muhammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan to Belgrade is realization of agreements made during visit by Serbia officials to Abu Dhabi last autumn. The Sheikh was handed projects for the JAT Airways and the PKB (Belgrade Agricultural Company), but also a project for water supply pipeline in Vojvodina, Blic learns.
The companies from the UAE are now expected to make concrete arrangements and the Sheikh said he would support every agreement’, Blic source well informed about the happenings at the meeting says.
During yesterday’s meeting at the Serbia Presidency Building, Prince Mohammad was especially interested in Serbian farming, high technologies, military technology and energy.
At Nikola Tesla Airport the Prince Mohammad was welcomed by Serbia First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic. In the official delegation there were Ljubisa Dikovic (Serbia Army HQ Chief-of-Staff), Nebojsa Rodic (BIA Director), Mladjan Dinkic (Minister of Finance and Economy) and Dragan Vladisavljevic (VBA Director).
At Serbia Presidency the Sheikh had talks with Vucic, Serbia President Tomislav Nikolic, Prime Minister Ivica Dacic, Deputy Prime Ministers Jovan Krkobabic and Rasim Ljajic and Finance and Economy Minister Mladjan Dinkic.
According to the press release from the President’s Cabinet the topic of talks was improvement and development of bilateral relations between Serbia and the UAE.
After visit to Abu Dhabi in October last year, Minister Dinkic said that Serbia would offer to companies from the UAE about 25,000 acres of the state farming land as joint venture in ten agricultural companies in state ownership. He also said that Serbia would be willing to offer the PKB as well, but Belgrade City Mayor Dragan Djilas strongly opposed that idea.
Dinkic also announced the possibility that the Etihad carrier owned by Sheikh Mohammad becomes a co-owner of the JAT Airways.
Source Blic
