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Serbia should apply for EU candidacy by year's end

Belgrade, 19 December 2009

The European Integration Council, chaired by Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic held a session today at which it proposed to the government to submit an application for Serbia's EU candidacy by the end of this year.

Author: Fonet

This decision was made by the Council in view of the fact that EU membership is Serbia’s long-term strategic goal and taking into account the positive evaluation of Serbia’s progress presented in the recently published documents by the European Commission – the 2009/2010 Enlargement Strategy and the Report on Serbia’s progress in the process of European integration in 2009.

The Council welcomed the efforts which the Serbian authorities made in fulfilling requirements for the abolishment of tourist visas and the unfreezing of the interim trade agreement between the European Union and Serbia.

The Council urged the Serbian government to continue with their intensive efforts to complete cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), in order to enable the further progress of Serbia towards the EU.

The Serbian government founded the European Integration Council in 2002, as the supreme body for giving strategic guidelines and creating a national consensus regarding Serbia’s EU accession.

This session was the Council’s eighth session since its foundation and the third during the mandate of the current government. Today’s session was attended by Serbian President Boris Tadic.