Serbia inherited about a third of the diplomatic facilities that belonged to the
former Yugoslavia. In period from 2001 to 2006 embassies in
Chile,
Colombia,
Congo-Kinshasa,
Ghana,
Guinea,
Lebanon,
Mongolia,
North Korea,
Pakistan,
Thailand,
Venezuela,
Vietnam, and
Zimbabwe were closed due to financial or reciprocal reasons. In 2008 the
Government of Serbia made a decision to close consulates in
Bari,
Graz, and
Malmö, and later that year Foreign Minister
Vuk Jeremić announced a plan to open a consulate-general in
Knin (
Croatia) during the autumn and an embassy in
Kuala Lumpur (
Malaysia). Foreign Minister also announced that some diplomatic missions might be closed but also announced a plan for opening missions in
Kazakhstan, Los Angeles, Pakistan,
United Arab Emirates and
Venezuela. Construction of the new embassy in
Washington and reconstruction of the existing buildings in Paris,
Nairobi and
Brussels is also planned. In late 2008, it was announced that due to the
2008 financial crisis expansion plans will be reviewed. In April 2009, Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that consulate in Croatia will be moved from
Rijeka to
Knin in Croatia. In May 2009 it was announced that the embassy in Peru will be temporarily closed and that the consulate-general in Lyon will be closed while the embassy in Kenya was to be reopened. Due to the legal succession of the
Yugoslav properties abroad, Serbia was obliged to hand over chanceries in
Vienna,
The Hague, and
Lisbon (to
Croatia);
Rome (to
Slovenia);
Canberra (to the
then-Republic of Macedonia),
Ankara, Madrid,
Oslo and
Ottawa (to
Bosnia and Herzegovina); as well as consular chanceries in
Klagenfurt,
Milan (to Slovenia),
Toronto (to Croatia),
Zürich and
Athens (Macedonia). In 2010, the Government of Serbia made a decision to open embassies in
Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and
Qatar and reopen embassies in
Congo-Kinshasa and
Ghana in 2011 and announced a plan to open embassies in
Oman, Chile,
Venezuela and
Pakistan in the future. In 2011, Serbia opened its embassies in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, and consulate-general in Herceg Novi. In 2006, the Government of Serbia adopted the
Memorandum of Agreement between the Republic of Montenegro and the Republic of Serbia on Consular Protection and Services to the Citizens of Montenegro. By this agreement, Serbian diplomatic missions provide consular services to the Montenegrin citizens on the territory of states in which Montenegro has no missions of its own. In 2012, Serbia signed a similar agreement with
Bosnia and Herzegovina that also allowed Serbian citizens to use Bosnian diplomatic and consular offices, namely those in
Jordan,
Malaysia,
Pakistan,
Qatar,
Saudi Arabia, and the
United Arab Emirates. However, in 2013 the Government of Serbia has adopted a decision to establish full diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. ==Current missions==