(SAA Article 17)
Article 52
1. Serbia should foster its cooperation and conclude a Convention on regional cooperation with any country candidate for accession to the European Union in any of the fields of cooperation covered by this Agreement. Such Convention should aim gradually to align bilateral relations between Serbia and that country with the relevant part of the relations between the Community and its Member States and that country. 2. Serbia shall start negotiations with Turkey which has established a customs union with the Community with a view to concluding, on a mutually advantageous basis, an Agreement establishing a free trade area between the two Parties in accordance with Article XXIV of the GATT 1994. These negotiations should be opened as soon as possible, with a view to concluding such Agreement before the end of the transitional period referred to in Article 3(1).