Bagis receives Serbian Minister without portfolio

Turkey's EU Minister and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagis received Serbian Minister without portfolio Sulejman Ugljanin in Ankara on Monday. Stating that both Turkey and Serbia are exerting efforts to join the EU, Bagis said that they discussed the cooperation potential of the two countries in the process of EU membership. In response to a question on the latest news about Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's speech which lacked the subject of Turkey’s EU accession process on Sunday at the 4th congress of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), Bagis said, "Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan mainly talked about the EU, but he did not use the word of 'European Union.' He mentioned all the reforms carried on and all those reforms were for supporting our EU accession. He talked about the future projects and they are all related to Turkey's EU accession process. 60 of the 63-article manifesto which was given out to media on Sunday deals with the EU accession period projects. If you have a detailed look, you will understand it."