VIENNA, Nov 27 (Hina) - Slobodan Milosevic's remaining on the political scene is not a good sign, but it could influence the comprehension of the speed and models of the process of democratisation in Serbia, Croatian Foreign Minister
Tonino Picula said in Vienna on Monday. Picula is taking part in the eighth meeting of OSCE member-states' foreign ministers who are convening in the Austrian capital on Monday and Tuesday . The ministerial meeting commenced when the incumbent Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica signed the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) fundamental documents and thus the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia/Montenegro) became a new member of this Organisation. Yugoslavia (FRY) was the last European country to do so. Asked by Croatian reporters to comment on the re-election of Slobodan Milosevic as the President of the Socialist Pa
VIENNA, Nov 27 (Hina) - Slobodan Milosevic's remaining on the
political scene is not a good sign, but it could influence the
comprehension of the speed and models of the process of
democratisation in Serbia, Croatian Foreign Minister Tonino Picula
said in Vienna on Monday.
Picula is taking part in the eighth meeting of OSCE member-states'
foreign ministers who are convening in the Austrian capital on
Monday and Tuesday .
The ministerial meeting commenced when the incumbent Yugoslav
President Vojislav Kostunica signed the OSCE (Organisation for
Security and Cooperation in Europe) fundamental documents and thus
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia/Montenegro) became a
new member of this Organisation. Yugoslavia (FRY) was the last
European country to do so.
Asked by Croatian reporters to comment on the re-election of
Slobodan Milosevic as the President of the Socialist Party of
Serbia, Minister Picula said there would be enough time and space
for serious comments on all what was going on in Serbia.
"It is certain that Milosevic's remaining on the political scene,
and his staying at the helm of a serious, but fortunately
opposition, party in Serbia is not a good sing," Croatian minister
said.
However, it is primarily the concern of Serbian citizens, although
"partly, it will become a reason for the international community to
worry," Picula added.
Croatia is realistic and it cannot be deluded by Milosevic's
reappearance or by euphoria in a part of the international
community after Milosevic was forced to step down from the office of
Yugoslav President.
Perhaps, this what has recently happened is good as many will turn
to be more sceptical about the speed and manners of Serbia's
democratisation, the Croatian official explained.
Picula declined to comment on Kostunica's statement that the FRY
had not entered the OSCE as a new member but that by signing the
documents he had just confirmed its membership in this
organisation.
"I would not like to comment in statements of some politicians and
statesmen here in Vienna, as very soon it will become obvious who is
able and determined to follow the European agenda of the
stabilisation of progress," Picula told Croatian journalists.
Croatia will know to warn international partners on time, if the
process reaches stalemates of which it does not want to become a
captive, he added.
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