President: Serbia won’t join EU at all costs

Serbia will not strive to become an EU member at all costs, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić said during a meeting with his Belarus counterpart on Tuesday.

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Wednesday, 13.03.2013.

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MINSK Serbia will not strive to become an EU member at all costs, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said during a meeting with his Belarus counterpart on Tuesday. “Maybe it seemed until now that Serbia was ready to do everything to become a member of the EU. And then everybody’s appetite grew. I am saying today that there are things that Serbia is not ready to do, even if the price is the EU membership,” Nikolic told Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk. President: Serbia won’t join EU at all costs The Serbian president stressed that Serbia wanted to join the EU and that it would do everything that a sovereign, independent proud state can do. “But nobody can dictate who our friends are. We believe Belarus is one of our greatest friends,” he said, Belarus Belta news agency has reported. “Serbia is trying to become an EU member. We are fulfilling all requests of the European Council that are normal for every country,” Nikolic said and added that Serbia had to deal with the Kosovo issue. “We handed it (Kosovo) over to the UN while it gradually placed it into Albanians’ hands, year after year,” the Serbian president stressed. He thanked Belarus for its “support to Serbia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity” and Lukashenko for his “courage to visit Serbia during NATO bombing in 1999” and presented him with a state decoration. Nikolic, Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkic and Culture Minister Bratislav Petkovic are on a two-day visit to Belarus. Tomislav Nikolic (Beta, file) Beta

President: Serbia won’t join EU at all costs

The Serbian president stressed that Serbia wanted to join the EU and that it would do everything that a sovereign, independent proud state can do.

“But nobody can dictate who our friends are. We believe Belarus is one of our greatest friends,” he said, Belarus Belta news agency has reported.

“Serbia is trying to become an EU member. We are fulfilling all requests of the European Council that are normal for every country,” Nikolić said and added that Serbia had to deal with the Kosovo issue.

“We handed it (Kosovo) over to the UN while it gradually placed it into Albanians’ hands, year after year,” the Serbian president stressed.

He thanked Belarus for its “support to Serbia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity” and Lukashenko for his “courage to visit Serbia during NATO bombing in 1999” and presented him with a state decoration.

Nikolić, Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkić and Culture Minister Bratislav Petković are on a two-day visit to Belarus.

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