The Turkish air carrier Turkish Airlines is ready to make an arrangement with Serbia's Jat Airways as of March 1, 2011, aimed at forming a Balkan airline company which would be called Balkan Airways, Serbian Minister without Portfolio Sulejman Ugljanin has stated for Tanjug.

Upon his return from Turkey, Ugljanin said that the country is ready for cooperation with Serbia in all areas.

He stressed that the aim of his visit was the beginning of the realization of interstate agreements signed in October 2009.

Ugljanin underscored that Turkey is ready to begin the contruction of the highway through western Serbia to southern Adriatic as of spring 2011.

In view of that, the Serbian government has recently adopted a Spatial Plan for the special purpose area for the highway, as well as the Spatial Plan for the special purpose area for the industrial zone in Tutin (southwest Serbia), Ugljanin pointed out, adding that this will also be a genuine economic response to all the problems that Sandzak is facing.

The minister said that during his two-day visit to Turkey he also saw the possibility of the two countries' cooperation in the area of agriculture.