Belgrade: support to Croatia's membership in UN Security Council continues to elicit reactionsBELGRADE, Feb 12 (Hina) - The statement by Serbia and MontenegroForeign Minister Vuk Draskovic that his country will support Croatia'sstatus
of a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council hascontinued to elicit reactions in Serbia, including claims by rightistparties that they will demand Draskovic's resignation, theBelgrade-based "Danas" daily reported on Saturday.
BELGRADE, Feb 12 (Hina) - The statement by Serbia and Montenegro
Foreign Minister Vuk Draskovic that his country will support Croatia's status
of a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council has continued to elicit
reactions in Serbia, including claims by rightist parties that they will demand
Draskovic's resignation, the Belgrade-based "Danas" daily reported on
Saturday.The chairwoman of the Serbian parliament's committee on foreign affairs,
Gordana Comic, has said that Serbia and Montenegro could benefit a lot from
such a move, which she believes cannot not have any negative effects.
A deputy of the G17 Plus party in the parliament, Suzana Grubjesic, said
that Draskovic's position was reasonable. "I believe that Croatia would have
supported Serbia and Montenegro if Serbia and Montenegro had been the
candidate. There is nothing controversial about that decision," she said,
adding that Croatia had made much more progress than Serbia and Montenegro and
that it was heading towards the European Union and gradually solving
outstanding issues.