BELGRADE ON WEDNESDAY BELGRADE, July 2 (Hina) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic on Tuesday - the day before the intended visit by a commissioner of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, Chris Patten - stated that the EU
"does not have a completed text" for the constitutional charter of the future community of Serbia and Montenegro but instead just suggestions of what that document should contain.
BELGRADE, July 2 (Hina) - Yugoslav Foreign Minister Goran
Svilanovic on Tuesday - the day before the intended visit by a
commissioner of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, Chris
Patten - stated that the EU "does not have a completed text" for the
constitutional charter of the future community of Serbia and
Montenegro but instead just suggestions of what that document
should contain. #L#
The European Union, Svilanovic said, is Yugoslavia's partner in the
most significant task we need to resolve at the moment and that is
the status of the country what ever its name may be and of how many
sections it consist of and relations between Serbia and Montenegro,
and so the work on the constitutional charter will be the central
theme of Wednesday's talks with the EU's commissioner.
Yugoslavia should be accepted to the Council of Europe before the
end of the year with the condition that it resolves the relationship
between Serbia and Montenegro, continues co-operating with The
Hague and maintains political stability, Svilanovic said.
He added that scandals that were occurring in the country were
damaging but regardless of how dramatic they might be they were
expected in a country that after so many years had only just come out
of isolation and entered into the process of transition.
At the moment the most significant issue is the relationship of the
military in the country, Svilanovic told journalists on the eve of
Chris Patten's visit to Belgrade on Wednesday.
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