Tadić on Hague, EU, Ponoš
Ratko Mladić will be arrested as soon as he is can be reached, "and that is that", says President Boris Tadić.
Friday, 02.01.2009.
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Ratko Mladic will be arrested as soon as he is can be reached, "and that is that", says President Boris Tadic. "I know that Serbia is today doing absolutely everything in her power, Serbia is doing quite everything and is not looking only for Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic, but for all perpetrators of crimes, those who violated humanitarian law, and this is not about ethnicity," Tadic told FoNet news agency in an interview in Belgrade on Friday. Tadic on Hague, EU, Ponos He mentioned the recent arrests of suspected ethnic Albanian war criminals in Presevo in this context. Had the cooperation with the Hague Tribunal been finalized, Serbia would already be a candidate for EU membership, he continued. "It is in our interest to become EU members and we cannot give up on that at any price," Tadic said, adding that the SAA implementation is needed "for formal reasons". "We need to apply the SAA in order to formalize what already exists in the EU market, in order to enter a new level of relations and become official candidate." He also spoke against "too harsh criticism" of the EU, and said this organization had given great assistance to Serbia in the years of transition. The EU is a natural destination for Serbia, her strategic goal, according to Tadic, who repeated that "the state must do all join the EU". He also addressed the issue of the sacking of Serbian Army Chief of the General Staff Lt. Gen. Zdravko Ponos earlier this week, which came after the general's public clash with Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovac. Tadic said his decision to use his powers and dismiss Ponos was "exclusively because the military rules, that are strictly defined, were broken". "As for Gen. Ponos, I can say unequivocally that he is one of the best officers, not only in our country, but in this part of Europe." "The issues that he had raised still remain, they pertain to the concept of reform of the armed forces," Tadic said, and added this was something he separates from the formal decision to dismiss Ponos "due to a violation of military rules". Tadic interviewed by FoNet on Friday (FoNet)
Tadić on Hague, EU, Ponoš
He mentioned the recent arrests of suspected ethnic Albanian war criminals in Preševo in this context.Had the cooperation with the Hague Tribunal been finalized, Serbia would already be a candidate for EU membership, he continued.
"It is in our interest to become EU members and we cannot give up on that at any price," Tadić said, adding that the SAA implementation is needed "for formal reasons".
"We need to apply the SAA in order to formalize what already exists in the EU market, in order to enter a new level of relations and become official candidate."
He also spoke against "too harsh criticism" of the EU, and said this organization had given great assistance to Serbia in the years of transition.
The EU is a natural destination for Serbia, her strategic goal, according to Tadić, who repeated that "the state must do all join the EU".
He also addressed the issue of the sacking of Serbian Army Chief of the General Staff Lt. Gen. Zdravko Ponoš earlier this week, which came after the general's public clash with Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac.
Tadić said his decision to use his powers and dismiss Ponoš was "exclusively because the military rules, that are strictly defined, were broken".
"As for Gen. Ponoš, I can say unequivocally that he is one of the best officers, not only in our country, but in this part of Europe."
"The issues that he had raised still remain, they pertain to the concept of reform of the armed forces," Tadić said, and added this was something he separates from the formal decision to dismiss Ponoš "due to a violation of military rules".
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