“SPS has chosen European path”

Leading U.S. analyst Daniel Serwer says the SPS’s decision to form a coalition with the DS shows that it is leaving the Milošević era behind.

Izvor: Tanjug

Thursday, 26.06.2008.

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Leading U.S. analyst Daniel Serwer says the SPS’s decision to form a coalition with the DS shows that it is leaving the Milosevic era behind. "I think that the formation of a new coalition government between the Democratic Party (DS) and the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) is an extraordinary opportunity for Serbia to choose the European path and to extract itself from the mire it has got itself into lately,” the vice-president of the Washington Institute for Peace told Voice of America. “SPS has chosen European path” He said that it was a logical move for the SPS to choose the European path if the party intended to participate in the Serbian political scene in future, but added that the new government would be judged on its results, not by the parties participating in it. Serwer said that it was “sad that the majority of the Serbian political establishment chose not to recognize Kosovo’s independence”, because that “may certainly be an obstacle on Serbia’s path towards the EU.” The American analyst thinks that new negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina are a good idea, but that many issues need to be resolved. "Pristina will certainly demand such talks based on the fact that Kosovo is an independent state,” said Serwer, a long-time supporter of the province’s independence. In his opinion, Belgrade’s idea about a functional division of Kosovo would mean an ethnic territorial partition of Kosovo. “With Ahtisaari’s plan, Serbia got all it could have hoped for, so I believe that it should give up on its demands on further concessions”, the American analyst said. Serwer believes that U.S. presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama would both continue to support a policy for recognition of Kosovo’s independence. "They would also aim to enhance relations with Serbia,” he said, stressing that relations between the two countries would also depend on Belgrade’s position.

“SPS has chosen European path”

He said that it was a logical move for the SPS to choose the European path if the party intended to participate in the Serbian political scene in future, but added that the new government would be judged on its results, not by the parties participating in it.

Serwer said that it was “sad that the majority of the Serbian political establishment chose not to recognize Kosovo’s independence”, because that “may certainly be an obstacle on Serbia’s path towards the EU.”

The American analyst thinks that new negotiations between Belgrade and Priština are a good idea, but that many issues need to be resolved.

"Priština will certainly demand such talks based on the fact that Kosovo is an independent state,” said Serwer, a long-time supporter of the province’s independence.

In his opinion, Belgrade’s idea about a functional division of Kosovo would mean an ethnic territorial partition of Kosovo.

“With Ahtisaari’s plan, Serbia got all it could have hoped for, so I believe that it should give up on its demands on further concessions”, the American analyst said.

Serwer believes that U.S. presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama would both continue to support a policy for recognition of Kosovo’s independence.

"They would also aim to enhance relations with Serbia,” he said, stressing that relations between the two countries would also depend on Belgrade’s position.

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