Tadić to sign SAA, if offered

Boris Tadić says he will sign the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) if it is offered.

Izvor: Tanjug

Friday, 11.04.2008.

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Boris Tadic says he will sign the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) if it is offered. The president and leader of the Democratic Party (DS) said that the SAA would be signed with the EU, because the government had already given the authority for doing so to one of its members. Tadic to sign SAA, if offered A source close to the president confirmed for B92 that Tadic was prepared to sign the agreement, if it was offered to Serbia at the next meeting of EU foreign ministers, scheduled to be held in Luxembourg on April 28. The president said last night that the government had already decided to sign the agreement. “The decision by the government to sign has been made and a signatory has already been selected. In order for the decision to be changed, the government would have to vote again. If the DSS (Democratic Party of Serbia) has a majority in the government, they can alter that decision,” he told Studio B last night. Asked how the technical government could sign the SAA, but not support the initiative to ratify the energy agreement with Russia, Tadic said that parliament would have to convene in order for that agreement to be ratified, but it could not, as it had been dissolved. “The parliament cannot pass any laws while it is dissolved, it does not have full legitimacy,” the president explained. He said that while the government had been under full mandate, it had already taken the decision for Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic to sign the SAA. “It would only be a technical signing that was decided on before the elections were called,” Tadic said. The president said that Serbia would never recognize Kosovo’s unilateral independence declaration as a condition for entering the EU, adding that no such demand could ever be made, since there were countries within the EU that had not and would not recognize the province’s independence. Tadic said that the country and people had the most to gain from signing the SAA, because 80 percent of the documentation involved regulating economic relations between Serbia and the EU. Boris Tadic and Javier Solana (FoNet archive)

Tadić to sign SAA, if offered

A source close to the president confirmed for B92 that Tadić was prepared to sign the agreement, if it was offered to Serbia at the next meeting of EU foreign ministers, scheduled to be held in Luxembourg on April 28.

The president said last night that the government had already decided to sign the agreement.

“The decision by the government to sign has been made and a signatory has already been selected. In order for the decision to be changed, the government would have to vote again. If the DSS (Democratic Party of Serbia) has a majority in the government, they can alter that decision,” he told Studio B last night.

Asked how the technical government could sign the SAA, but not support the initiative to ratify the energy agreement with Russia, Tadić said that parliament would have to convene in order for that agreement to be ratified, but it could not, as it had been dissolved.

“The parliament cannot pass any laws while it is dissolved, it does not have full legitimacy,” the president explained.

He said that while the government had been under full mandate, it had already taken the decision for Deputy Prime Minister Božidar Đelić to sign the SAA.

“It would only be a technical signing that was decided on before the elections were called,” Tadić said.

The president said that Serbia would never recognize Kosovo’s unilateral independence declaration as a condition for entering the EU, adding that no such demand could ever be made, since there were countries within the EU that had not and would not recognize the province’s independence.

Tadić said that the country and people had the most to gain from signing the SAA, because 80 percent of the documentation involved regulating economic relations between Serbia and the EU.

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