Socialist partner backs SAA

United Serbia (JS) President Dragan Markovic, a.k.a Palma, declared that he would vote in favor of the SAA once it makes it to parliament for ratification. But Markovic, a figure previously known in the 1990s for his political alliance with kingpin gangster Zeljko Raznatovic a.k.a. Arkan, said that he still did not know if he would become an MP. Socialist partner backs SAA His party is part of a coalition gathered around the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) and the Party of Unified Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS). United Serbia is entitled to three seats in the parliament, out of the 20 the coalition has won in the elections last Sunday. Markovic stated that the coalition agreement provided for no possibility of separation of parties forming it, and that JS will not leave. As for his support for the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA), he explained that “without cooperation with Europe there is no future and without foreign investments there are no new jobs.” “I saw that in the Jagodina example,” Markovic said of the central Serbian town he controls, adding that he found relevant Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's statement that it was “better late than never to sign the SAA”. He concluded that JS is in favor of joining the EU only in case UN Security Council Resolution 1244 on Kosovo is respected. Palma meets supporters (FoNet, archive)

Socialist partner backs SAA

His party is part of a coalition gathered around the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) and the Party of Unified Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS).

United Serbia is entitled to three seats in the parliament, out of the 20 the coalition has won in the elections last Sunday.

Marković stated that the coalition agreement provided for no possibility of separation of parties forming it, and that JS will not leave.

As for his support for the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA), he explained that “without cooperation with Europe there is no future and without foreign investments there are no new jobs.”

“I saw that in the Jagodina example,” Marković said of the central Serbian town he controls, adding that he found relevant Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's statement that it was “better late than never to sign the SAA”.

He concluded that JS is in favor of joining the EU only in case UN Security Council Resolution 1244 on Kosovo is respected.