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Beta October 17, 2003 Federal troops for Afghanistan -Belgrade is also required to drop its charges against NATO leaders for the bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. -They also mentioned a possibility of Serbia-Montenegro and Bosnia-Hercegovina being invited to join the Partnership for Peace at the NATO Council of Ministers meeting in December and being admitted at next years NATO summit in Istanbul. BRUSSELS -- Thursday Federal Defence Minister Boris Tadic told a NATO seminar in Brussels today that discussions are under way with NATO and the US on deploying Serbia-Montenegro troops in Afghanistan. The scheme still requires political agreement and ratification by the federal parliament, said Tadic. NATO Secretary-General George Robertson said that agreement had been reached in principle for the troops but that Belgrade was yet to decide whether they would be deployed within the UN mission in Kabul or in a US-led operation. He added that he personally hoped the decision on Serbia-Montenegros integration into the Partnership for Peace could happen this year, but this depended on Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic being delivered to the Hague. Belgrade is also required to drop its charges against NATO leaders for the bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. Tadic warned that delaying Partnership for Peace membership imperilled the credibility of reformist leaders in Belgrade and threw the reforms themselves into great danger. Diplomatic sources quoted by Beta said that the encouragement from NATO circles in September over Belgrades membership of the Partnership had dried up in recent weeks. They also mentioned a possibility of Serbia-Montenegro and Bosnia-Hercegovina being invited to join the Partnership for Peace at the NATO Council of Ministers meeting in December and being admitted at next years NATO summit in Istanbul.
