Deputy PM warns of "tough days ahead"

Serbia is once again facing tough days on its EU road, while the decision on making the country an EU candidate will be made at the last moment.

Izvor: Veèernje novosti

Tuesday, 15.11.2011.

09:50

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Serbia is once again facing tough days on its EU road, while the decision on making the country an EU candidate will be made at the last moment. This is according to Deputy PM Bozidar Djelic. who was quoted by the Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti. Deputy PM warns of "tough days ahead" Djelic also said that Serbia launched a wide-reaching diplomatic offensive and that the list of its allies who wish to give it credit for reforms was growing. According to him, last week Holland offered to lobby with the countries that had taken a hard line toward Serbia's EU ambition. But none of that guarantees a positive outcome on December 9, and Djelic expects that this decision, as was the case with the EC opinion before it, will be made at the last moment. The government, said one of it's deputy presidents, will do everything for Serbia to become a candidate: "We must first of all work on the conditions put forward by the European Commission, and that is to reestablish the dialogue with Pristina and implement those agreements that have already been made. That's the condition of all conditions". Djelic also revealed he was neither an optimist nor a pessimist: "The role of the government, and myself as deputy for European integrations, is not to hope or complain about injustices, but to work until the last moment so that we make the next step toward Brussels". Bozidar Djelic (Tanjug, file)

Deputy PM warns of "tough days ahead"

Đelić also said that Serbia launched a wide-reaching diplomatic offensive and that the list of its allies who wish to give it credit for reforms was growing.

According to him, last week Holland offered to lobby with the countries that had taken a hard line toward Serbia's EU ambition.

But none of that guarantees a positive outcome on December 9, and Đelić expects that this decision, as was the case with the EC opinion before it, will be made at the last moment.

The government, said one of it's deputy presidents, will do everything for Serbia to become a candidate:

"We must first of all work on the conditions put forward by the European Commission, and that is to reestablish the dialogue with Priština and implement those agreements that have already been made. That's the condition of all conditions".

Đelić also revealed he was neither an optimist nor a pessimist:

"The role of the government, and myself as deputy for European integrations, is not to hope or complain about injustices, but to work until the last moment so that we make the next step toward Brussels".

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