BELGRADE, Nov 25 (Hina) - NATO secretary general George Robertson has said that NATO expects the new Croatian government to cooperate with the Hague war crimes tribunal, build a market economy and speed up economic and military
reforms.
BELGRADE, Nov 25 (Hina) - NATO secretary general George Robertson
has said that NATO expects the new Croatian government to cooperate
with the Hague war crimes tribunal, build a market economy and speed
up economic and military reforms. #L#
We will judge the future Croatian government by what it does. They
(the Croatian Democratic Union - HDZ) say they are a force of the new
era, that they abandoned Tudjman's legacy, and are a modern
conservative party. I hope they are right, and they better be right,
because there is no future in the extremism of the past, Robertson
said in an interview with the Belgrade-based Beta news agency ahead
of his visit to Belgrade on Wednesday.
Robertson said that the North-Atlantic Alliance wanted Serbia and
Montenegro to become a member of the Euro-Atlantic family, but
warned that there would be no future for the country should
undemocratic and defeated extreme nationalists return to power.
Serbia and Montenegro's admission to NATO's Partnership for Peace
programme largely depends on whether indicted Bosnian Serb wartime
military commander Ratko Mladic is handed over to the Hague
tribunal, Robertson said.
Mladic must face the Hague tribunal, and the international
community will not back down from this, he said.
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