"Your government has shown that it wants to cooperate and that it is cooperating with the international community, including cooperation with the Hague tribunal," Sanader said in an interview with Tanjug news agency. "That cooperation is necessary and unavoidable, and I believe it will continue even after Mladic's transfer to The Hague," he added.
The Croatian prime minister expressed hope that the SAA talks with the EU would continue, saying that Serbia and the whole region needed the European integration processes to continue and that any radicalisation of the situation would benefit no one.
"A prolonged delay of the talks on stabilisation and association would strengthen the anti-European forces and possibly destabilise Serbia and Montenegro, which is in no one's interest," he warned, stressing that he firmly believed that the place of Southeast European countries was in the European Union.
"I will repeat: the project of European integration cannot be completed without including all the countries of Southeast Europe. Serbia and Montenegro are unavoidable, important and necessary participants and partners in that process," the Croatian prime minister said.