Clinton wraps up visit to Serbia

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is finishing her visit to Serbia. In Belgrade on Tuesday, she expressed support to Serbia’s EU integrations. Clinton will from Belgrade travel to Pristina, which has, according to announcements, prepared a "phenomenal reception for her". Clinton wraps up visit to Serbia During her visit to Kosovo the U.S. secretary of state will meet with acting President Jakup Krasniqi and Prime Minister Hashim Thaci. Clinton and Serbian President Boris Tadic have concluded that new grounds for relations between Serbia and the U.S. are established. “The U.S. appreciates Serbia. Not only because if its outstanding history but, what’s more important because of its enormous potential. We believe in Serbia’s potential. Americans of Serbian descent have significantly contributed to development of the U.S. We are absolutely convinced, not only that Serbia can become a member of the EU but also a leader in Europe,” Clinton said. Tadic has repeated that Serbia is doing everything to arrest two remaining Hague fugitives Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic, while the U.S. secretary of state said that she believed that the Serbian authorities were truly working hard to locate them. “I wish to publically thank Serbia for your strong cooperation with the Hague Tribunal. I appreciate everything that your government and especially security forces officials have done,” she stressed. Still, there are issues that Serbia and the U.S. do not agree on and that is the issue of Kosovo. Clinton also praised the Serbian police for their successful protection of the Pride Parade participants. She had a meeting with Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic, Interior Minister Ivica Dacic, Economy Minister Mladjan Dinkic and Science and Technological Development Minister Bozidar Djelic and two separate meetings with Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic and Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovac. Hillary Clinton and Boris Tadic (Beta) The U.S. secretary of state meets with NGO representatives (Beta) After meetings with the Serbian officials Clinton had meetings with civilian sector representatives, whom she praised for their involvement in political changes in Serbia. B92 External Communications Director Sasa Mirkovic was among them. “What was especially important to me is that during the talk about the media situation in Serbia my colleagues and I discussed a topic which is very current for us and that’s primarily the fact that the media are having an extremely hard time doing business due to financial and economic situation, and that they are facing disloyal competition in the market considering that the state is still the owner of some media and because privatization process in the media still has not been finished,” Mirkovic pointed out. The U.S. secretary of state will finish her visit to the region with a visit to Kosovo. Afterwards she will travel to Brussels where she will speak to EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy Catherine Ashton and attend NATO foreign ministers meeting.

Clinton wraps up visit to Serbia

During her visit to Kosovo the U.S. secretary of state will meet with acting President Jakup Krasniqi and Prime Minister Hashim Thaci.

Clinton and Serbian President Boris Tadić have concluded that new grounds for relations between Serbia and the U.S. are established.

“The U.S. appreciates Serbia. Not only because if its outstanding history but, what’s more important because of its enormous potential. We believe in Serbia’s potential. Americans of Serbian descent have significantly contributed to development of the U.S. We are absolutely convinced, not only that Serbia can become a member of the EU but also a leader in Europe,” Clinton said.

Tadić has repeated that Serbia is doing everything to arrest two remaining Hague fugitives Ratko Mladić and Goran Hadžić, while the U.S. secretary of state said that she believed that the Serbian authorities were truly working hard to locate them.

“I wish to publically thank Serbia for your strong cooperation with the Hague Tribunal. I appreciate everything that your government and especially security forces officials have done,” she stressed.

Still, there are issues that Serbia and the U.S. do not agree on and that is the issue of Kosovo.

Clinton also praised the Serbian police for their successful protection of the Pride Parade participants.

She had a meeting with Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković, Interior Minister Ivica Dačić, Economy Minister Mlađan Dinkić and Science and Technological Development Minister Božidar Đelić and two separate meetings with Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić and Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac. The U.S. secretary of state meets with NGO representatives (Beta)

After meetings with the Serbian officials Clinton had meetings with civilian sector representatives, whom she praised for their involvement in political changes in Serbia. B92 External Communications Director Saša Mirković was among them.

“What was especially important to me is that during the talk about the media situation in Serbia my colleagues and I discussed a topic which is very current for us and that’s primarily the fact that the media are having an extremely hard time doing business due to financial and economic situation, and that they are facing disloyal competition in the market considering that the state is still the owner of some media and because privatization process in the media still has not been finished,” Mirković pointed out.

The U.S. secretary of state will finish her visit to the region with a visit to Kosovo. Afterwards she will travel to Brussels where she will speak to EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy Catherine Ashton and attend NATO foreign ministers meeting.