Solana: Unblock trade agreement
Javier Solana hopes the EU Council of Ministers will give the nod to application of the Interim Agreement with Serbia.
Wednesday, 10.09.2008.
14:00
Javier Solana hopes the EU Council of Ministers will give the nod to application of the Interim Agreement with Serbia. "I hope that on September 15 we’ll manage to unblock the situation regarding the Interim Agreement,” said the EU high representative for foreign and security policy in a statement to the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs in Brussels. Solana: Unblock trade agreement The EU Council of Ministers will discuss the issue of the entry into force of the Interim Agreement at its September 15 session in Brussels, upon Hague Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz’s return from Belgrade. Solana, the European Commission and the vast majority of EU members are in favor of unblocking the Interim Agreement, while Holland continues to be the chief opponent of such a decision until it receives clear signs of Belgrade’s “full cooperation” with the Hague Tribunal. Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic is confident EU ministers will unfreeze the interim trade agreement with Serbia at their summit in Brussels next Monday. "Next Monday, I expect the logical and normal decision for the interim trade agreement with Serbia to be implemented," Djelic told reporters. He underlined that he had met today with the EU member-state ambassadors with a view to convincing them to urge their governments to unfreeze the interim agreement. The minister pointed out that Serbia had important allies on this issue—European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier and EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn—all of whom have said they will advocate the implementation of the interim agreement on Monday. He stated that he had also informed EU ambassadors about everything that Serbia was doing in the sphere of European integration. Asked whether he was hopeful that Serbia would receive a positive answer in Brussels, Djelic stated that he was being objective, since Serbia had done everything in its power with regards to cooperation with the Hague. Javier Solana (FoNet, archive)
Solana: Unblock trade agreement
The EU Council of Ministers will discuss the issue of the entry into force of the Interim Agreement at its September 15 session in Brussels, upon Hague Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz’s return from Belgrade.Solana, the European Commission and the vast majority of EU members are in favor of unblocking the Interim Agreement, while Holland continues to be the chief opponent of such a decision until it receives clear signs of Belgrade’s “full cooperation” with the Hague Tribunal.
Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Božidar Đelić is confident EU ministers will unfreeze the interim trade agreement with Serbia at their summit in Brussels next Monday.
"Next Monday, I expect the logical and normal decision for the interim trade agreement with Serbia to be implemented," Đelić told reporters.
He underlined that he had met today with the EU member-state ambassadors with a view to convincing them to urge their governments to unfreeze the interim agreement.
The minister pointed out that Serbia had important allies on this issue—European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier and EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn—all of whom have said they will advocate the implementation of the interim agreement on Monday.
He stated that he had also informed EU ambassadors about everything that Serbia was doing in the sphere of European integration.
Asked whether he was hopeful that Serbia would receive a positive answer in Brussels, Đelić stated that he was being objective, since Serbia had done everything in its power with regards to cooperation with the Hague.
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