I believe in a stronger partnership with the United States of America under the leadership of Donald Trump, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said on November 10, after a telephone conversation with the newly elected American president.
Vučić stated on Instagram that he had an "excellent conversation, cordial and meaningful" with Trump.
Trump, a Republican, defeated the current vice president of the USA, Kamala Harris, in the November 5 election. This will be Trump's second term in the White House.
Vučić, as he said, expressed the hope that Trump would visit Serbia, assessing that Serbia was the country where the support for his election to the position of US president was "the greatest in Europe".
"And President Trump thanked for the enormous support he received from the citizens of Serbia, from the Serbian people," said Vučić.
The President of Serbia said that he believes that he will be able to discuss the improvement of relations in all fields with the official Washington in the coming period.
"I am sure that, with the support of our friends - and by friends I mean the entire environment of President Trump who were with him tonight during the conversation - that he will be able to make America great, and that we will be able to make Serbia a decent country and a country that will be able to cooperate very well with the USA," added Vučić.
After Congress confirms the Electoral College vote on January 6, Trump and his incoming running mate, US Sen. JD Vance, are scheduled to take office on January 20.
After Trump's first term, which ended after he lost the election in 2020, he was succeeded as US President by Democrat Joe Biden.
Unlike in 2020, when the government in Belgrade openly supported Trump, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said during this election campaign in the USA that he "has preferences", but that he will not speak about it publicly.
Pro-government media in Serbia openly supported Trump.
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Assessments that official Belgrade has again sided with the Republican candidate were accompanied by news of visits by Trump's close associates to Serbia ahead of the US elections.
Donald Trump Jr. was in Belgrade in September. The son of the Republican candidate discussed potential investments with a group of businessmen from Serbia.
Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, already has business ventures in Belgrade, with whose company the construction of a business-residential complex was contracted in May on the site of the former General Staff, parts of which were destroyed in the NATO intervention in 1999.
In September 2020, in the presence of Donald Trump, as the then American president, Vučić signed the Agreement on the Normalization of Economic Relations between Serbia and Kosovo, known as the Washington Agreement, with the then Prime Minister of Kosovo, Avdullah Hoti, in the White House.
Trump marked the agreement as his success.
The projects envisaged by the Washington Agreement, such as the construction of the "peace highway" Nis (Serbia) - Pristina (Kosovo), as well as the railway line and the division of Lake Gazivode - have only just begun.
A road was built several kilometers from Niš towards the Kosovo border.
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