First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia Ivica Dačić participated in the Ministerial Conference of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) and the EU, which was held in Brussels on 18 June 2019. The conference was organised by Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and Bulgarian Presidency of BSEC. Directorate-General of the European Commission for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations hosted the conference. 

High representatives of BSEC, European Commission, European External Action Service, Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Romania, Greece and Malta, as well as Deputy Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria, Azerbaijan and Turkey, State Secretary at the MFA of Hungary, Undersecretary of State at the MFA of Poland, Ambassadors of Armenia, Russia and Ukraine to the EU and other high official participated in the conference. 

All participants pledged to strengthen sectoral cooperation in the fields of economy and trade, transport and energy, environmental protection, tourism, cross-border cooperation, digitization and to jointly work on addressing the challenges of climate change, in order to improve the quality of life of the population, primarily at the local level.