Đelić: Govt. ready to meet obligations

As it meets with an IMF delegation, the government will show that it is ready to fulfill all the obligations it undertook, Božidar Đelić said.

Izvor: Tanjug

Monday, 08.02.2010.

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As it meets with an IMF delegation, the government will show that it is ready to fulfill all the obligations it undertook, Bozidar Djelic said. This is especially true, the deputy PM said in Belgrade on Monday, when it comes to the issue of pensions. Djelic: Govt. ready to meet obligations He told reporters that apart from the pensions, the central issue of the talks with the IMF will be the enforcement of the rationalization measures which the government decided to carry out during the latest visit of the IMF mission. Djelic assessed that the forthcoming talks will be "pretty difficult", but added that, "as always, they will be completed in the right way". Serbia has a stand-by arrangement with the IMF worth EUR 2.9bn, and has already withdrawn some EUR 1.1bn of that loan. Serbia's EU membership candidacy to be discussed Serbian Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Bozidar Djelic said on Monday that the main topic of the meeting with new EU Commissioner designate for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fuele, scheduled for Thursday, will be the possible date when Serbia's application for EU membership might be put on the EU Council of Ministers' agenda. “This issue is primarily under the jurisdiction of Spain, as it holds the EU presidency, and less under the European Commission, although the latter also has an influence on the matter,” Djelic explained. Djelic reminded that Serbia's goal is to obtain EU candidate status by the end of the year, or at the beginning of 2011 at the latest. According to him, it is “a little more than symbolic” that, of the 20 countries he is in charge of, Fuele decided, on the first day of his new office, to meet with a Serbian delegation.

Đelić: Govt. ready to meet obligations

He told reporters that apart from the pensions, the central issue of the talks with the IMF will be the enforcement of the rationalization measures which the government decided to carry out during the latest visit of the IMF mission.

Đelić assessed that the forthcoming talks will be "pretty difficult", but added that, "as always, they will be completed in the right way".

Serbia has a stand-by arrangement with the IMF worth EUR 2.9bn, and has already withdrawn some EUR 1.1bn of that loan.

Serbia's EU membership candidacy to be discussed

Serbian Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Božidar Đelić said on Monday that the main topic of the meeting with new EU Commissioner designate for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fuele, scheduled for Thursday, will be the possible date when Serbia's application for EU membership might be put on the EU Council of Ministers' agenda.

“This issue is primarily under the jurisdiction of Spain, as it holds the EU presidency, and less under the European Commission, although the latter also has an influence on the matter,” Đelić explained.

Đelić reminded that Serbia's goal is to obtain EU candidate status by the end of the year, or at the beginning of 2011 at the latest.

According to him, it is “a little more than symbolic” that, of the 20 countries he is in charge of, Fuele decided, on the first day of his new office, to meet with a Serbian delegation.

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