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Reforms to provide basis for Serbia’s EU candidate status

Belgrade/Brussels, 11 November 2009

Serbian Foreign Minister for EU integration Bozidar Djelic said today after a meeting with EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn that Serbia is making efforts to apply for candidate status by the end of 2009.

After a meeting with Rehn in Brussels, Djelic stressed that Serbian authorities are making every effort to ensure unanimous support in the EU for its application, even if the transitional trade agreement does not come into force. The Deputy Prime Minister stressed that he talked with Rehn about Belgrade’s wish to apply for candidate status by the end of this year, adding that he presented the Serbian government’s latest report on the progress made regarding democratic changes, following the European Commission’s last report on reforms in Serbia.

He said this refers to the evident progress in the fight against crime, solving internal issues, such as the adoption of Vojvodina’s statute, and adoption of the Law on Serbia’s security and defence policy.

Djelic said that unfreezing the transitional trade agreement, which may come about at the December EU leaders’ summit, will greatly facilitate Serbia’s road towards candidacy.

The implementation of the trade agreement is very important, but this is not the only reference point for Serbia’s decision to apply for EU candidacy.