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Dual citizenship agreement with Montenegro must be a compromise
Belgrade,
8 December 2008
First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Ivica Dacic said he expects the talks on dual citizenship with Montenegro to be finalised in the next several days and the agreement to be signed.
Dacic told the Beta news agency yesterday that he expects both Serbia and Montenegro to reach a compromise agreement on dual citizenship, which will grant dual citizenship to all those who will have acquired that right by the day the agreement is signed, adding that new applications will be taken into consideration every year.
He said that a considerable portion of the agreement has already been agreed upon and it now remains to find the middle path between two concepts, the liberal Serbian and the restrictive Montenegrin one, given that Montenegro thinks that dual citizenship should be granted only to those who were eligible prior to Montenegro’s declaration of independence.
According to him, all visa-liberalisation related laws under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Interior have been adopted and the European Commission will send experts early next year to see how they are being implemented.
This means we must take great care of our border crossings and check points and the quality and security of our documents, although we also need a single information system for issuing visas and monitoring the entries and exits from the country.
Dacic noted that document security and border crossings are the most important issues, adding that Serbia must move forward quickly and keep in pace with modern technologies when it comes to new documentation.
The Ministry of the Interior must reflect all new technologies, said Dacic, adding that he has already proposed that the new Serbian biometric passport contains the holder’s fingerprint.
He said that a considerable portion of the agreement has already been agreed upon and it now remains to find the middle path between two concepts, the liberal Serbian and the restrictive Montenegrin one, given that Montenegro thinks that dual citizenship should be granted only to those who were eligible prior to Montenegro’s declaration of independence.
According to him, all visa-liberalisation related laws under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Interior have been adopted and the European Commission will send experts early next year to see how they are being implemented.
This means we must take great care of our border crossings and check points and the quality and security of our documents, although we also need a single information system for issuing visas and monitoring the entries and exits from the country.
Dacic noted that document security and border crossings are the most important issues, adding that Serbia must move forward quickly and keep in pace with modern technologies when it comes to new documentation.
The Ministry of the Interior must reflect all new technologies, said Dacic, adding that he has already proposed that the new Serbian biometric passport contains the holder’s fingerprint.
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