No candidate status “bad message from EU"

If Serbia does not get the candidate status in February or March, it will be a very bad message from Europe, Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac said late Friday.

Izvor: RTS

Saturday, 24.12.2011.

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If Serbia does not get the candidate status in February or March, it will be a very bad message from Europe, Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovac said late Friday. “It would mean that we went beyond the framework of the Copenhagen Accord,” he told Radio Television Serbia of (RTS). No candidate status “bad message from EU" The Serbian defense minister stated that the recommendations by the European Commission had confirmed that Serbia had met all the requirements in terms of achieving the standards needed to get closer to the European Union. “Having done that, all the other countries immediately received the candidacy. We, unfortunately, have a situation that is bound to the Kosovo and Metohija issue and that is a very big problem,” Sutanovac explained. He stressed that “we should not give up on pursuing a solution to the issue,” adding that “it should be done wisely and patiently, focusing particularly on improving the economic situation of the Serb community in Kosovo and Metohija.” Dragan Sutanovac

No candidate status “bad message from EU"

The Serbian defense minister stated that the recommendations by the European Commission had confirmed that Serbia had met all the requirements in terms of achieving the standards needed to get closer to the European Union.

“Having done that, all the other countries immediately received the candidacy. We, unfortunately, have a situation that is bound to the Kosovo and Metohija issue and that is a very big problem,” Šutanovac explained.

He stressed that “we should not give up on pursuing a solution to the issue,” adding that “it should be done wisely and patiently, focusing particularly on improving the economic situation of the Serb community in Kosovo and Metohija.”

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