Dutch FM to visit Belgrade on Wednesday

Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen will visit Belgrade on Wednesday, it was announced.

Izvor: B92

Tuesday, 15.12.2009.

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Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen will visit Belgrade on Wednesday, it was announced. He will meet with Serbia's President Boris Tadic and his Serbian counterpart Vuk Jeremic, the Dutch Ministry of Internal Affairs said on its website. Dutch FM to visit Belgrade on Wednesday The statement reads that the main issues will be the regional situation, European integration and bilateral relations. The Dutch foreign minister should have visited Serbia on July 21, but this visit was postponed indefinitely. Ahead of his visit here, Verhagen told B92 that his country would make its final decision regarding the implementation of the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) in June 2010, based on Chief Hague Prosecutor Serge Brammertz's report due at that time. Serbia and the EU signed the SAA in the spring of 2008, but the agreement was immediately suspended pending Belgrade's full cooperation with the Hague court. The trade part of the SAA, the Interim Trade Agreement, was unfrozen earlier this month. Should Ratko Mladic – a former military leader of Bosnia's Serbs accused of committing war crimes – be arrested in the meanwhile, Verhagen told B92, the SAA would be unblocked immediately. Otherwise, Brammertz's report, Verhagen explained, would have to contain all the elements confirming that Serbia is in fact doing all it can to bring the Hague fugitives to justice. Maxime Verhagen (B92, file)

Dutch FM to visit Belgrade on Wednesday

The statement reads that the main issues will be the regional situation, European integration and bilateral relations.

The Dutch foreign minister should have visited Serbia on July 21, but this visit was postponed indefinitely.

Ahead of his visit here, Verhagen told B92 that his country would make its final decision regarding the implementation of the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) in June 2010, based on Chief Hague Prosecutor Serge Brammertz's report due at that time.

Serbia and the EU signed the SAA in the spring of 2008, but the agreement was immediately suspended pending Belgrade's full cooperation with the Hague court. The trade part of the SAA, the Interim Trade Agreement, was unfrozen earlier this month.

Should Ratko Mladić – a former military leader of Bosnia's Serbs accused of committing war crimes – be arrested in the meanwhile, Verhagen told B92, the SAA would be unblocked immediately.

Otherwise, Brammertz's report, Verhagen explained, would have to contain all the elements confirming that Serbia is in fact doing all it can to bring the Hague fugitives to justice.

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