NATO: Serbia’s future in Euro-Atlantic integration

Jaap de Hoop Scheffer says that Serbia’s long-term future lies in Euro-Atlantic integration.

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Friday, 14.03.2008.

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Jaap de Hoop Scheffer says that Serbia’s long-term future lies in Euro-Atlantic integration. The NATO secretary general said that a strong signal would be sent to Serbia at the coming NATO summit next month in Bucharest. NATO: Serbia’s future in Euro-Atlantic integration “We have to explain to Belgrade and the people of Serbia that there is no sustainable future in sinking back into angry nationalism,” Scheffer said, according to the Reuters news agency. “I do not have a shred of doubt that Serbia’s long-term future lies in Euro-Atlantic integration,” he said. Scheffer said that he hoped that there would be a chance to reestablish ties with Russia at the NATO summit – which will be held on April 2-4 in Bucharest –after disagreements regarding the security situation in central Europe and the Balkans, Reuters stated. Relations between NATO and Russia are strained, Reuters added, because of the U.S.’s plans to erect a defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, its recognition of Kosovo’s unilateral independence, and the possibility of the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Ukraine joining the alliance. “We want to deepen our cooperation and continue our dialogue,” Scheffer said of Russia, adding that the missile shield in central Europe should not impede cooperation between the two countries in the fight against terrorism and drug trafficking. Scheffer said that helping hands would also be offered to Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina at the summit, who both wish to join the alliance. However, he did not want to comment on Georgia and Ukraine’s progress towards NATO membership, which Moscow vehemently opposes. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (FoNet archive)

NATO: Serbia’s future in Euro-Atlantic integration

“We have to explain to Belgrade and the people of Serbia that there is no sustainable future in sinking back into angry nationalism,” Scheffer said, according to the Reuters news agency.

“I do not have a shred of doubt that Serbia’s long-term future lies in Euro-Atlantic integration,” he said.

Scheffer said that he hoped that there would be a chance to reestablish ties with Russia at the NATO summit – which will be held on April 2-4 in Bucharest –after disagreements regarding the security situation in central Europe and the Balkans, Reuters stated.

Relations between NATO and Russia are strained, Reuters added, because of the U.S.’s plans to erect a defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, its recognition of Kosovo’s unilateral independence, and the possibility of the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Ukraine joining the alliance.

“We want to deepen our cooperation and continue our dialogue,” Scheffer said of Russia, adding that the missile shield in central Europe should not impede cooperation between the two countries in the fight against terrorism and drug trafficking.

Scheffer said that helping hands would also be offered to Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina at the summit, who both wish to join the alliance. However, he did not want to comment on Georgia and Ukraine’s progress towards NATO membership, which Moscow vehemently opposes.

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