PM, Serbian FM discuss bilateral ties

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Thursday discussed with visiting Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic means to further bilateral relations, according to a cabinet press release. “Maliki and Jeremic focused on cooperation in the scientific and cultural fields,” read the release as received by IraqiNews.com news agency. “The issue of Serbia, Kosovo and Montenegro and the long suffering their peoples have been through only assert that civil wars bring nothing but harm and ideologies of division and secession,” Maliki said. He added that all groups within a society should have the courage to seek unity and peace instead of separation and division. For his part, the Serbian foreign minister expressed his country’s wish to open scholarships and fellowships for Iraqi students as of this year. AmR (P) 1