Now, the Chinese President Xi Jinping is in Belgrade for a visit that aims to deepen political and economic ties with Serbia. He'll hold talks with the Serbian President, Alexander Vuchitch. The Chinese leader's visit coincides with the 25th anniversary of US airstrikes on China's embassy in Belgrade. In an editorial for a Serbian newspaper, he wrote that the Chinese people would never allow such tragic history to repeat itself. Beijing has invested heavily in Serbia in recent Two countries signed a free trade agreement last year. Let's go light to Belgrade. Bbc's Guy Delaney is there. Hi, Guy. What's going to be happening there today?

We're going to have a series of meetings between the Chinese and Serbian delegations. I'm hearing that about 400 people accompanied President Xi Jinping to Belgrade, and clearly, a lot of these are going to be business people, so there's going to be all sorts of talks going on about how to not just deepen the political and diplomatic relationship between Serbia and China, but also about what business can be done. And we've been seeing plenty of that already between the two countries. Now, China's ambassador has claimed that China is now the biggest investor in Serbia. Those figures are not borne out by the official UN Trade figures. However, it's clear that a lot of money is coming into this country from China. You've got investments in mining, in minerals, in infrastructure, like road and rail, and also in domestic appliances. So Hisense opened a big factory here last year, and you'd imagine that more such talks will be going on today. The Serbian government says dozens of agreements are going to be signed between the two sides to go with already this free trade agreement that they signed last year and another comprehensive cooperation agreement that they signed back in 2016.

Now, the symbolism, as you mentioned it earlier, Lewis, of this of this timing of this meeting is significant, 25 years to the day since NATO bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, an event that NATO has always insisted was accidental. Compensation was paid and apology accepted. But Xi Jinping, as you say, said that Chinese people would never forget that. Nato, of course, not popular here in Serbia either. The vast majority of people opposed to membership of NATO. The meeting of these two presidents is really an indication that although Serbia is deep in its EU accession negotiations, that it has another strong friend in China, and it has other paths that it could go down in terms of its development and in terms of the way that it moves forward. And with these EU accession negotiations proving interminable for Serbia, perhaps it's also a reminder from Belgrade to Brussels, that if Brussels doesn't show more in terms of what it wants, that it wants Serbia to join the European it wants it in that club, then Serbia might turn its attention elsewhere and make the friends that perhaps Brussels would rather it didn't.

Okay, Guy, thank you very much for that.