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Head of OSCE Mission to Serbia-Montenegro gives support for Serbia's new government

Belgrade, 8 March 2004

Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica met on Monday with the head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia-Montenegro, Ambassador Maurizio Massari, who gave OSCE's support for Serbia's new government and its Prime Minister.

Vojislav Kostunica

Massari said that a report, which he is due to submit to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna, will underline the necessity of assisting the new Serbian government in its efforts to pass a new anti-corruption law and secure broader independence of the judiciary.

The OSCE will also help Serbia prepare its courts for war crime trials and support its efforts to depoliticise police.

According to Massari, the international community has welcomed the new Serbian parliament's decision to scrap parliamentary representation threshold for national minorities.

Kostunica said that the Serbian government is ready to continue full cooperation with the OSCE and thanked the organisation for the assistance it has provided so far. The Prime Minister also stressed that all parliamentary parties must participate in the Serbian political scene, which he said is a precondition for passing a new constitution and a series of important laws in the shortest period possible.

Both Kostunica and Massari pointed to the importance of improving the functioning of the state union of Serbia-Montenegro, particularly the efficiency of the state union parliament.

The two officials also agreed that cooperation between Belgrade and the international community must be full so that the two sides could come up with a strategy that will secure constructive cooperation between the state union and the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, with full respect of real political relations.