Prague: Don't hold Serbia hostage to Mladić

Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg says that Serbia’s further EU integration should not be impeded by the failure to arrest Ratko Mladić.

Izvor: Tanjug

Thursday, 08.01.2009.

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Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg says that Serbia’s further EU integration should not be impeded by the failure to arrest Ratko Mladic. “The entire country should not be held hostage to a criminal,“ Schwarzenberg told reporters in Brussels on behalf of the Czech EU presidency. Prague: Don't hold Serbia hostage to Mladic He was speaking about the Dutch refusal to sanction implementation of the interim trade agreement with Serbia until Mladic is arrested. The EU signed the Stabilization and Association Agreement with Serbia in mid-2008, but it is not being implemented because of Holland’s insistence that Belgrade must first deliver Mladic to the Hague Tribunal. According to Schwarzenberg, Holland's stance is halting Serbia's political development, which he described as unjust. The Czech foreign minister told the press that the EU should accept that Serbia doing all it could to achieve full cooperation with the Tribunal in The Hague. Karel Schwarzenberg

Prague: Don't hold Serbia hostage to Mladić

He was speaking about the Dutch refusal to sanction implementation of the interim trade agreement with Serbia until Mladić is arrested.

The EU signed the Stabilization and Association Agreement with Serbia in mid-2008, but it is not being implemented because of Holland’s insistence that Belgrade must first deliver Mladić to the Hague Tribunal.

According to Schwarzenberg, Holland's stance is halting Serbia's political development, which he described as unjust.

The Czech foreign minister told the press that the EU should accept that Serbia doing all it could to achieve full cooperation with the Tribunal in The Hague.

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