“Pro-European Serbia will prevail”

Parliamentary Speaker Oliver Dulić says that the election will show that the Pro-European Serbia is stronger than “the other Serbia.”

Izvor: FoNet

Friday, 18.04.2008.

12:44

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Parliamentary Speaker Oliver Dulic says that the election will show that the Pro-European Serbia is stronger than “the other Serbia.” The Democratic Party official said that “the other Serbia” consisted of political parties that opposed Serbia’s European integration. “Pro-European Serbia will prevail” While answering questions from members of the public in a phone-in, Dulic said that Serbia needed to become a member of the EU as soon as possible in order to become a secure and economically strong country. The speaker said that the contents of the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) had not changed since its initialing, including the regulation on the validity of Resolution 1244. He criticized Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica for claiming that he did not know what was written in it. Dulic added that the dilemma that Serbia had to choose between Kosovo and the EU was manufactured, and that further hesitation and a rejection of European integration would lead to Serbia losing out on both. The speaker said that he was sorry that Kostunica, as far as he could see, had accepted Radical leader Vojislav Seselj’s theory that the EU was made up of Serbia’s enemies. He stated that the future majority in parliament had to change the existing code of procedure in order to avoid obstruction by the opposition, and to allow quicker harmonization of local legislation with that of the EU. On the theme of intra-national relations in Vojvodina, Dulic said that the present level of toleration and cohabitation of different peoples had to be enhanced, but opposed the idea of connecting municipalities with a Hungarian majority according to the ethnic principle, because that would be against European principles on integration. He reiterated that war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic had to be extradited to the Hague Tribunal because he had been accused of committing the most terrible crimes during the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and that the court would decide if he was guilty or not. Oliver Dulic (FoNet, archive)

“Pro-European Serbia will prevail”

While answering questions from members of the public in a phone-in, Dulić said that Serbia needed to become a member of the EU as soon as possible in order to become a secure and economically strong country.

The speaker said that the contents of the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) had not changed since its initialing, including the regulation on the validity of Resolution 1244.

He criticized Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica for claiming that he did not know what was written in it.

Dulić added that the dilemma that Serbia had to choose between Kosovo and the EU was manufactured, and that further hesitation and a rejection of European integration would lead to Serbia losing out on both.

The speaker said that he was sorry that Koštunica, as far as he could see, had accepted Radical leader Vojislav Šešelj’s theory that the EU was made up of Serbia’s enemies.

He stated that the future majority in parliament had to change the existing code of procedure in order to avoid obstruction by the opposition, and to allow quicker harmonization of local legislation with that of the EU.

On the theme of intra-national relations in Vojvodina, Dulić said that the present level of toleration and cohabitation of different peoples had to be enhanced, but opposed the idea of connecting municipalities with a Hungarian majority according to the ethnic principle, because that would be against European principles on integration.

He reiterated that war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladić had to be extradited to the Hague Tribunal because he had been accused of committing the most terrible crimes during the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and that the court would decide if he was guilty or not.

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