FM: There won't be demands for "urgent implementation"

Ahead of his trip to Brussels, FM Ivan Mrkić has told B92 he "does not believe" Catherine Ashton will demand urgent implementation of the Brussels agreement.

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Monday, 27.05.2013.

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BELGRADE Ahead of his trip to Brussels, FM Ivan Mrkic has told B92 he "does not believe" Catherine Ashton will demand urgent implementation of the Brussels agreement. Asked what was expected of Serbia a month before EU's decision on giving the country a date for the start of membership talks, Mrkic said Serbia had so far "done so much" that he "absolutely" did not expect any new conditions to be set by Brussels. FM: There won't be demands for "urgent implementation" According to him, what has been asked from Serbia regarding Kosovo "does not have to be interpreted as demands, but rather as the need to stabilize the region, which Serbia has been doing, to stabilize the region and relations." "We have the goals that are increasingly clear, we are not hiding them and that meets with the commendation not only in Europe but elsewhere as well. We were at the African Union Summit the other day and we received praise from all corners for what is Serbia's foreign policy," the minister stressed. Asked what the focus of the country's foreign policy would be in the coming days - "the EU or the implementation of the agreement in the field" - Mrkic said the government had told the EU clearly that it had accepted the implementation plan, and that "now that is taking its own course." Speaking about a working dinner organized by Ashton that he will attend in Brussels on Monday, Mrkic said he expected "a good atmosphere and a lot of interest in how the region can be characterized now, after all the activities undertaken by our government." "I don't expect Ashton to ask for urgent implementation, because that plan cannot be implemented overnight, because the consciousness cannot be changed with a decree. What's important is that what has been agreed is being carried out honestly, and for it to be in the interest of those to whom it relates. I do not expect any sort of panicking or haste from Mrs. Ashton," the minister said. (Photo courtesy of the Serbian MFA, file) B92

FM: There won't be demands for "urgent implementation"

According to him, what has been asked from Serbia regarding Kosovo "does not have to be interpreted as demands, but rather as the need to stabilize the region, which Serbia has been doing, to stabilize the region and relations."

"We have the goals that are increasingly clear, we are not hiding them and that meets with the commendation not only in Europe but elsewhere as well. We were at the African Union Summit the other day and we received praise from all corners for what is Serbia's foreign policy," the minister stressed.

Asked what the focus of the country's foreign policy would be in the coming days - "the EU or the implementation of the agreement in the field" - Mrkić said the government had told the EU clearly that it had accepted the implementation plan, and that "now that is taking its own course."

Speaking about a working dinner organized by Ashton that he will attend in Brussels on Monday, Mrkić said he expected "a good atmosphere and a lot of interest in how the region can be characterized now, after all the activities undertaken by our government."

"I don't expect Ashton to ask for urgent implementation, because that plan cannot be implemented overnight, because the consciousness cannot be changed with a decree. What's important is that what has been agreed is being carried out honestly, and for it to be in the interest of those to whom it relates. I do not expect any sort of panicking or haste from Mrs. Ashton," the minister said.

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