Good cooperation between Serbia and ODIHR

03. Dec 2021.
On the second day of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Stockholm, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia Nikola Selakovic met with Matteo Mecacci, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).

Selakovic said that Serbia saw ODIHR as an institution of exceptional importance, which had been assisting the OSCE participating States in the implementation of their commitments in the field of human dimension for three decades.

He noted that the support that ODIHR extended to our country throughout the years of comprehensive reforms was invaluable, especially in the areas of ​​strengthening democratic institutions and election observation.

ODIHR has been observing the elections in Serbia for many years, and this cooperation has contributed to the improvement of the electoral system in our country, said the Head of Serbian diplomacy, adding that Serbia established a Working Group for Cooperation with the OSCE and ODIHR in 2019, which included all relevant institutions.