DM: PfP sufficient level of cooperation

Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac says Serbia’s membership in the Partnership for Peace (PfP) program represents a sufficient level of cooperation with NATO.

Izvor: B92

Friday, 09.10.2009.

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Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovac says Serbia’s membership in the Partnership for Peace (PfP) program represents a sufficient level of cooperation with NATO. “If countries like Austria, Sweden and Ireland can be in the PfP and not in NATO, why can’t we? All those countries are EU member-states and are very influential. Even Switzerland, which is not an EU member, is in the PfP and I do not see why we shouldn’t be,” Sutanovac told B92. DM: PfP sufficient level of cooperation He said that no one in Serbia had explained the possible pros and cons of NATO membership, nor had anyone given figures for how much it cost to be a NATO member and how much it cost to be militarily neutral. Sutanovac described as “unnecessary and quasi-patriotic” the long debate in parliament a few days ago on whether Serbia should join NATO or remain neutral. “No one is inviting Serbia to join NATO,” Sutanovac said, adding that the military had yet to make full use all the possibilities offered by the PfP, as illustrated by the fact that an office for the Serbian Army was only now just about to open in Brussels, three years after joining the Partnership. Presenting the national security strategy, Sutanovac said that threats came from Kosovo because of ethnically-motivated violence, a high level of organized crime and incomplete democratic institutions. He also said that any attempt to change the Dayton Accords in Bosnia-Herzegovina was fraught with danger for the entire region. The Defense Minister said that the draft law on the military security services (VBA) and the military intelligence agency (VOA) would introduce the new post of a general inspector to control those agencies’ work. Dragan Sutanovac (Tanjug, archive)

DM: PfP sufficient level of cooperation

He said that no one in Serbia had explained the possible pros and cons of NATO membership, nor had anyone given figures for how much it cost to be a NATO member and how much it cost to be militarily neutral.

Šutanovac described as “unnecessary and quasi-patriotic” the long debate in parliament a few days ago on whether Serbia should join NATO or remain neutral.

“No one is inviting Serbia to join NATO,” Šutanovac said, adding that the military had yet to make full use all the possibilities offered by the PfP, as illustrated by the fact that an office for the Serbian Army was only now just about to open in Brussels, three years after joining the Partnership.

Presenting the national security strategy, Šutanovac said that threats came from Kosovo because of ethnically-motivated violence, a high level of organized crime and incomplete democratic institutions.

He also said that any attempt to change the Dayton Accords in Bosnia-Herzegovina was fraught with danger for the entire region.

The Defense Minister said that the draft law on the military security services (VBA) and the military intelligence agency (VOA) would introduce the new post of a general inspector to control those agencies’ work.

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