DSS: Kosovo-EU swap out of question

Aleksandar Popović (DSS) says Serbia won’t swap Kosovo, not even for EU membership.

Izvor: Tanjug

Friday, 12.10.2007.

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Aleksandar Popovic (DSS) says Serbia won’t swap Kosovo, not even for EU membership. Popovic, the energy minister and vice president of Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica’s Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), said today that the issue of Serbia’s EU prospects and membership was completely separate from Kosovo’s future. DSS: Kosovo-EU swap out of question “The EU demands of all states aspiring to join its ranks to meet certain conditions, and none of them include a state giving up a part of its territory,” he stressed. In an interview with Novi Sad daily Dnevnik, Popovic said he had recently visited Moscow and remarked that Russia “was defending what some others were jeopardizing” – the United Nations, the international security system, and the Helsinki Act. Speaking of the date for presidential and local elections, the DSS vice-president said his party was against holding the ballot before the end of the year, as “there is no need for it.” “All bodies at all levels, including local and regional, have mandates that have not yet expired,” he said. “In order to hold elections, they have to be called first, and for that to happen, an entire set of laws has to be adopted,” Popovic noted, adding that elections would in all likelihood take place after Kosovo’s status had been settled. Asked whether the DSS decision to advocate military neutrality for Serbia would distance the party from their coalition partner, President Boris Tadic’s Democrats (DS), he replied it would not affect relations within the ruling coalition.

DSS: Kosovo-EU swap out of question

“The EU demands of all states aspiring to join its ranks to meet certain conditions, and none of them include a state giving up a part of its territory,” he stressed.

In an interview with Novi Sad daily Dnevnik, Popović said he had recently visited Moscow and remarked that Russia “was defending what some others were jeopardizing” – the United Nations, the international security system, and the Helsinki Act.

Speaking of the date for presidential and local elections, the DSS vice-president said his party was against holding the ballot before the end of the year, as “there is no need for it.”

“All bodies at all levels, including local and regional, have mandates that have not yet expired,” he said.

“In order to hold elections, they have to be called first, and for that to happen, an entire set of laws has to be adopted,” Popović noted, adding that elections would in all likelihood take place after Kosovo’s status had been settled.

Asked whether the DSS decision to advocate military neutrality for Serbia would distance the party from their coalition partner, President Boris Tadić’s Democrats (DS), he replied it would not affect relations within the ruling coalition.

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