Serbia receives humanitarian aid from Azerbaijan

Belgrade, May 20 (AzerTAc). The Serbian authorities have received humanitarian aid that arrived from Azerbaijan to help the people who suffered as a result of devastating floods. Instructed by President Ilham Aliyev, humanitarian aid was sent to Serbia by the Ministry of Emergency Situations. At the Belgrade airport, it was received in a ceremony attended by first lady of Serbia Dragica Nikolic, deputy Premier, Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Kori Udovicki, Adviser to the President Jasmina Mitrovic Maric, deputies of Belgrade Mayor Irena Vujovic and Goran Vesic, staff members of the Azerbaijani Embassy, managers of the Serbia-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce and Belgrade-based Azerbaijan Culture Center, Azerbaijanis living and studying in Serbia, and journalists. Dragica Nikolic said “the friendly people of Serbia will never forget this help”. “This help will for many long years symbolize sincere relations between the two friendly peoples.” Kori Udovicki said Serbia received from Azerbaijan the equipment and items it exactly needed. Adviser at the Embassy said humanitarian aid was a sign of “relations of friendship and strategic partnership between Azerbaijan and Serbia”. Deputy chairman of the Serbia-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce Dragan Vujovic and director of Azerbaijan Culture Center Zarifa Alizade praised the help of the Azerbaijani people, President Ilham Aliyev to “Serbia and its people in their hard time”.