Dačić: Serbia ready to assume risks

Serbia is ready to assume the risks that come with visa liberalization on January 1, says Interior Minister Ivica Dačić.

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Thursday, 10.09.2009.

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Serbia is ready to assume the risks that come with visa liberalization on January 1, says Interior Minister Ivica Dacic. Speaking in Brdo pri Kranju yesterday at the 9th Regional Ministerial Conference on Illegal Migration, Organized Crime, Corruption and Terrorism, Dacic said that Serbia had finalized its migration management strategy, meaning that everything was on track for visa liberalization on January 1. Dacic: Serbia ready to assume risks He added that Belgrade would soon be signing a two-year agreement with Austria on cooperation regarding visa liberalization. The minister said that Serbia was ready to assume all risks linked with this process because “many countries in the world will be in some way scared by possible liberalization for the Western Balkan countries, believing that it will open the doors for legal and illegal migration, crime…” “We’re ready to confront this in an organized, appropriate manner for it not to represent a threat to EU member-states,” said Dacic. The minister said that a proposal had been made at yesterday’s conference at Brdo pri Kranju to include Kosovo in that process, to which his response had been that that was a “political, not police matter” and that the issue should be considered over the next year. He said that, as a result, no decision had been taken on this issue and that Serbia would only attend the meeting if Kosovo was represented in line with UN Security Council resolution 1244, not as an independent state. “The tone taken at the end was very proper, and I don’t think that should undermine good police cooperation throughout the region,” said Dacic. The minister added that another talking point at the conference had been combating terrorism,, stating that the countries of the region would soon be signing a declaration on combating terrorism. This would also involve cooperation with the center in Bucharest, as part of conducting situation assessments in the field of organized crime in the region. Ivica Dacic (FoNet, archive)

Dačić: Serbia ready to assume risks

He added that Belgrade would soon be signing a two-year agreement with Austria on cooperation regarding visa liberalization.

The minister said that Serbia was ready to assume all risks linked with this process because “many countries in the world will be in some way scared by possible liberalization for the Western Balkan countries, believing that it will open the doors for legal and illegal migration, crime…”

“We’re ready to confront this in an organized, appropriate manner for it not to represent a threat to EU member-states,” said Dačić.

The minister said that a proposal had been made at yesterday’s conference at Brdo pri Kranju to include Kosovo in that process, to which his response had been that that was a “political, not police matter” and that the issue should be considered over the next year.

He said that, as a result, no decision had been taken on this issue and that Serbia would only attend the meeting if Kosovo was represented in line with UN Security Council resolution 1244, not as an independent state.

“The tone taken at the end was very proper, and I don’t think that should undermine good police cooperation throughout the region,” said Dačić.

The minister added that another talking point at the conference had been combating terrorism,, stating that the countries of the region would soon be signing a declaration on combating terrorism. This would also involve cooperation with the center in Bucharest, as part of conducting situation assessments in the field of organized crime in the region.

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