Members of the Serbian parliament permanent delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (PA) will attend the NATO PA meeting in Warsaw November 12-16.

The meeting will discuss a report by the Committee on the Civil Dimension of Security regarding the situation in the Western Balkans 15 years after the Dayton Agreement, which ended the war in Bosnia.

The Serbian delegation will meet NATO PA President John Tanner, Chairman of the Committee on the Civil Dimension of Security Jo Ann Emerson and committee rapporteur Marc Angel.

The delegation comprises Konstantin Samofalov, Edip Serifov, Nikola Lazic, Bozidar Djelic and Vlajko Senic, who is the head of the group. A part of the debate will focus on Serbia and its role regarding security in the Western Balkans, as well as its defence policy concerning NATO, Serifov stated.

“Our delegation will send the message that Serbia is a partner to all countries when it comes to maintaining world peace and stability,” Serifov wrote in a statement received by Tanjug. According to him, “after the professionalization of the armed forces and the adoption of the national defence and security strategy, Serbia continues to take steps towards integrating itself into the joint European and world political and security system.”

Chief of General Staff of the Serbian Army (VS) Colonel General Miloje Miletic has said he does not expect any serious threats to the country’s security will occur when the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue begins, but added that such a possibility should not be ruled out completely.

“I do not expect there will be incidents or that it will be necessary to activate the hotline between the Serbian Army and KFOR when the talks begin, but this does not mean that such a possibility can be ruled out completely ,” General Miletic said in an interview for the Thursday edition of Belgrade’s daily Blic.

Miletic said that provoking incidents has so far been an “approved method of those who are against peaceful solutions” and who want to slow down the process of reconciliation. Therefore, the possibility of incidents cannot be ruled out, he added, underlining that criminal structures represent the greatest threat in that respect.

Miletic also pointed out that the topic of the forthcoming talks with KFOR commander Erhard Buhler, which are scheduled to take place in Nis on November 18 and which will deal with the issue of cooperation in preserving security in south Serbia, will not be demarcation, as Pristina’s Albanian-language daily Koha Ditore wrongly claims

The topic of these talks will be joint activities of the VS and KFOR forces in securing the administrative border line, the protection of the people and the property in Kosovo and Metohija, and prevention of incidents,” he explained.

“Neither I nor the KFOR commander have the mandate to discuss the matter of demarcation, and the position of the government and the state is quite clear – Kosovo is an integral part of Serbia and demarcation is not the issue,” Miletic underscored.

November 13, 2010
Tanjug

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