Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said after a meeting with the management of Motorola in Chicago that the Serbian Ministry of Interior (MUP) and the US company will continue cooperation in the field of modernization of information and communication system.

MUP and Motorola have an agreement on strategic partnership, and several years ago they launched a project implementing TETRA system, which enables crypto-protected transfer of information on the territory of Serbia.

About 40 percent of the project has been realized so far, and what we should do in the future includes covering the whole territory of Serbia with the system, Dacic said late Monday.

TETRA system enables crypto-protected transfer of information, and it also provides a number of users such as the army, electric power industry, first aid, fire department or anyone else with a fully independent system of data transfer, the minister reported.

Dacic said that it was also agreed that Motorola will seek Serbian companies with developed software technology in order to invest in them.

Our interest is to develop latest technologies with the strategic partner in other fields as well, he said, adding that he got acquainted with the work of an emergency response command center in Chicago.

Dacic, who is ending his several-day visit to the USA, said Monday at a reception in the Serbian Consulate General in Chicago that the alliance and partner relation between Serbia and the USA should be developed, certainly not at the expense of other nations, but rather taking into account legitimate national and state interests of Serbia.