Serbia has made significant steps and has intensified the activities on its EU pathway, Head of Information, Communication and Press department of the EU delegation to Serbia Luca Kadar stated Friday.

At the conference dedicated to the challenges faced by the Balkan countries on their EU pathway, Kadar said that the EU considers the enlargement to the Western Balkans very important, as it wants peace and stability in that region.

She said that frustration can be felt in Serbia that the country's EU integration has lasted for too long, noting, however, that it is not a process which can be completed overnight, and that the EU promised to help Serbia and other potential candidate countries.

Deputy Director of the Serbian government's EU Integration Office Srdjan Majstorovic said that Serbia must complete its cooperation with the ICTY, that is extradite the ICTY indictees Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic to The Hague.

Majstorovic pointed to the significance of the forthcoming dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, which is important for the stability of the entire region, adding that Serbia must have a good regional cooperation which is of practical and general interest to all regional countries.

The conference on the EU pathway of the Balkan countries was held at the Law Faculty of the Belgrade Union University, in the organization of the academic Leadership Development Program.