Serbia is fully committed to meeting the United Nations' millennium developmental goals and should achieve them by 2015, Serbian President Boris Tadic said on Sept. 20, at U.N. headquarters.

"We are working very hard to establish truly sustainable and socially responsible long-term development, in line with the overall strategic intent of the Millennium Development Goals", Tadic told a plenary session on the eight international development goals, a part of the 65th session of the U.N. General Assembly.

Tadic said Serbia was working toward those goals through the Strategy for Reducing Poverty, "an integral part of the Serbian government's efforts to achieve our central strategic priority: membership in the European Union," he said in a speech dispatched to BETA.

Tadic stated that his country was fully dedicated to making the millennium goals a priority in legislative activity, adding that Serbia was willing, ready and able to help other countries in their efforts.