Speaking to students of the Diplomatic Academy, Rizzo said that in the past year the political situation in the region was marked by the countries' drawing further apart from nationalist and radical options and drawing closer to the strengthening of regional cooperation.
The decision that Serbia be admitted to the Partnership for Peace programme, regardless of the fact that the country has not yet solved the issue of Mladic, was adopted as part of the NATO general security strategy and interests, Rizzo said. I am certain that in the future Serbia will cooperate with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, he added.
The NATO officials said he did not doubt that the Serbian public knew what a war crime was.
Serbia showed it wants to become part of the Euro-Atlantic family and NATO wishes the same, he said,
Representatives of the Serbian Government and NATO opened a NATO-Serbia liaison office in Belgrade on Monday.