EC questionnaire will be submitted "soon”

Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Božidar Đelić says that Serbia could submit the EC questionnaire to EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule on January 31.

Izvor: Tanjug

Thursday, 06.01.2011.

09:19

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Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic says that Serbia could submit the EC questionnaire to EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule on January 31. "The Serbian administration has been working hard and the process is about to be completed," he told Tanjug. EC questionnaire will be submitted "soon” The deputy PM said that the remaining questions should be answered this week, and that, in mid-January, a meeting would be held with Serbian parliament's Committee for EU Integration and government's Council for EU Integration which would consider the answers before they are officially adopted. “After that, in the first and second quarter of 2011, the European Commission will send missions which would not only attest the veracity of answers, but also suggest some changes,” he noted. According to Djelic, Serbia will then launch the action plan, passed by the Serbian government in late December 2010, which envisages adoption of numerous vital laws. “In any case, we will do everything in our power to get a date for starting negotiations on EU integration, not only a candidate status at the December EU summit,” he said. As regards Serbia's cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, the deputy PM noted that quite a big pressure was being imposed on Serbia, and that the Netherlands, as well as some other European states, had made it clear that the best way to prove the country's willingness to cooperate was to apprehend and extradite the remaining two Hague fugitives. “In Serbia's case, there is a particularly sensitive issue of Kosovo, whose unilaterally declared independence Serbia will never recognize,” he emphasized, adding that Serbia had to resolve the Kosovo issue in order to become a fully-fledged member of the EU, and that the announced Belgrade-Pristina dialogue should help in that process. “The EU accession is in the national interest of Serbia and it is our duty to meet the necessary requirements as soon as possible,” Djelic concluded. Bozidar Djelic (Tanjug)

EC questionnaire will be submitted "soon”

The deputy PM said that the remaining questions should be answered this week, and that, in mid-January, a meeting would be held with Serbian parliament's Committee for EU Integration and government's Council for EU Integration which would consider the answers before they are officially adopted.

“After that, in the first and second quarter of 2011, the European Commission will send missions which would not only attest the veracity of answers, but also suggest some changes,” he noted.

According to Đelić, Serbia will then launch the action plan, passed by the Serbian government in late December 2010, which envisages adoption of numerous vital laws.

“In any case, we will do everything in our power to get a date for starting negotiations on EU integration, not only a candidate status at the December EU summit,” he said.

As regards Serbia's cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, the deputy PM noted that quite a big pressure was being imposed on Serbia, and that the Netherlands, as well as some other European states, had made it clear that the best way to prove the country's willingness to cooperate was to apprehend and extradite the remaining two Hague fugitives.

“In Serbia's case, there is a particularly sensitive issue of Kosovo, whose unilaterally declared independence Serbia will never recognize,” he emphasized, adding that Serbia had to resolve the Kosovo issue in order to become a fully-fledged member of the EU, and that the announced Belgrade-Priština dialogue should help in that process.

“The EU accession is in the national interest of Serbia and it is our duty to meet the necessary requirements as soon as possible,” Đelić concluded.

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