(BELGRADE) - Serbian President Boris Tadic will lead a high-ranking delegation to Brussels Wednesday for talks with top EU officials on the country's integration into the European Union, state-run agency Tanjug reported.

The delegation was to meet with EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn, as well as other EU officials, the agency said on Sunday.

Tadic will be accompanied by Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic, his deputy in charge of European integration Bozidar Djelic and Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic, the agency said.

The visit comes with the Serbian parliament expected to meet in the coming days to ratify the EU Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) on closer ties with the bloc, after the text was signed in April.

The ratification has been stalled by political turmoil in parliament despite the swearing in on July 7 of a new government that favours speedy integration with the 27-nation bloc.

Meetings of the assembly, which is dominated by pro-European forces led by Tadic's Democratic Party (DS), were suspended in July after days of obstruction by the opposition ultra-nationalist Radical Party and Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) of former nationalist prime minister Vojislav Kostunica.

Belgrade hopes to join the European Union by 2014.

But rapprochement with the EU strongly depends on Serbia's cooperation with the UN war crimes tribunal, notably the arrest of the last two remaining fugitives, former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic and Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic.

Mladic -- along with the Bosnian Serb war-time political leader Radovan Karadzic, arrested in Belgrade in July -- has been charged with genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity over the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica.

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