We won’t block Serbia’s EU integration, Croatian FM says

Croatia will not block Serbia because it is in its interest that its neighbors join the EU, Croatian Foreign Minister Vesna Pusić has stated.

Izvor: Tanjug

Saturday, 23.06.2012.

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Croatia will not block Serbia because it is in its interest that its neighbors join the EU, Croatian Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic has stated. According to her, it is not a matter of like or dislike but a matter of common sense. We won’t block Serbia’s EU integration, Croatian FM says She told Rijeka-based daily Novi list that “Croatia’s first interest is to have functional and stable countries at its borders and not unreliable states because it is simply dangerous”. Commenting on announcements of Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic that Serbia will get a date for the beginning of the EU accession talks, Pusic said that a decision would be made based on a series of formal criteria regarding institutional readiness and political criteria which were especially important in the region. “The criteria are not exact and they are measured by circumstances that are considered the most important,” she explained, adding that “the EU has no problem with the enlargement”. The Croatian FM stressed that she did not say at a NATO summit in Chicago that Nikolic’s victory had changed the strategic situation in the field but that the Serbian elections had changed the circumstances in the region instead. “Serbia has so far, to put it mildly, had reservations about the EU membership but it has been interested in NATO membership and it seems to be the case still,” Pusic said. “It seems to me that it would be harder to reinitiate the enlargement process than to keep it running continuously,” the Croatian official explained. Vesna Pusic (Beta, file) Tanjug

We won’t block Serbia’s EU integration, Croatian FM says

She told Rijeka-based daily Novi list that “Croatia’s first interest is to have functional and stable countries at its borders and not unreliable states because it is simply dangerous”.

Commenting on announcements of Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić that Serbia will get a date for the beginning of the EU accession talks, Pusić said that a decision would be made based on a series of formal criteria regarding institutional readiness and political criteria which were especially important in the region.

“The criteria are not exact and they are measured by circumstances that are considered the most important,” she explained, adding that “the EU has no problem with the enlargement”.

The Croatian FM stressed that she did not say at a NATO summit in Chicago that Nikolić’s victory had changed the strategic situation in the field but that the Serbian elections had changed the circumstances in the region instead.

“Serbia has so far, to put it mildly, had reservations about the EU membership but it has been interested in NATO membership and it seems to be the case still,” Pusić said.

“It seems to me that it would be harder to reinitiate the enlargement process than to keep it running continuously,” the Croatian official explained.

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