Selakovic: Need to bring the Serbian diaspora in France even closer together

17. Dec 2021.
Today, at the end of his two-day official visit to France, Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikola Selakovic met in Paris with representatives of the Serbian diaspora, with whom he discussed the position of Serbs in that country and the need for the associations to work together in order to foster their identity, but also to promote Serbia and its culture.

At the meeting, Minister Selakovic pointed out the importance of deepening the ties between Serbia and France and the role that the diaspora could play in that process, if it acted in a more concrete and coherent way.

As he said, for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but also for our diaspora in France, it is very important that by the end of this year we will have a new director of the Cultural Centre in Paris, where we will promote Serbia and its culture in the future, through richer and more substantial programs.

It is estimated that around 200,000 members of the Serbian diaspora live in different parts of France, mainly in Paris, but also in the south of France in the area of ​​Lyon.

Today's meeting in Paris was attended, among others, by representatives of the Union of Serbs in France, the Assembly of the Diaspora of Serbs of Southern France, the "Sumadija-Sens" Association and many other cultural, artistic and emigrant associations.