"SAA would improve standards of health care"

The health minister thinks signing the SAA and further EU integration would help Serbian health care to adopt world standards in patient treatment faster . “With the potential signing of the agreement, if it’s offered to us, one of the regulations that would have to be coordinated very quickly, and which is linked to health care, is in the field of food safety,” Health Minister Tomica Milosavljevic told B92’s Poligraf yesterday. "SAA would improve standards of health care" He added that the regulations in question were compatible in the region and the European Union. “Food can then be transported across Europe with more confidence, and will be accessible to users in different countries,” he said. Milosavljevic, like the other government members from within the ranks of the “For a European Serbia” coalition, supports the signing of the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU as soon as that document is offered to Serbia. Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) ministers, meanwhile, oppose signing the SAA, with Education Minister Zoran Loncar claiming that it is nothing but a NATO ploy for, as he put it, Serbia to be dismembered. "The signature of the Canak, Democratic Party (DS), G17 Plus coalition on Solana's agreement cannot be interpreted as Serbia's recognition of Kosovo independence," Loncar said in a statement to the press. "If the Canak, DS, G17 Plus coalition wants to sign Solana's agreement, they can do so only on behalf of their own coalition and that signature will in no way be binding for Serbia," the minister insisted.

"SAA would improve standards of health care"

He added that the regulations in question were compatible in the region and the European Union.

“Food can then be transported across Europe with more confidence, and will be accessible to users in different countries,” he said.

Milosavljević, like the other government members from within the ranks of the “For a European Serbia” coalition, supports the signing of the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU as soon as that document is offered to Serbia.

Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) ministers, meanwhile, oppose signing the SAA, with Education Minister Zoran Lončar claiming that it is nothing but a NATO ploy for, as he put it, Serbia to be dismembered.

"The signature of the Čanak, Democratic Party (DS), G17 Plus coalition on Solana's agreement cannot be interpreted as Serbia's recognition of Kosovo independence," Lončar said in a statement to the press.

"If the Čanak, DS, G17 Plus coalition wants to sign Solana's agreement, they can do so only on behalf of their own coalition and that signature will in no way be binding for Serbia," the minister insisted.