http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9069258B-0B85-429A-BA2B-6DFAB808414E.htm
EU calls for 'democratic' Serbia
The European Union's foreign policy chief has said he stills hopes for a
"pro-European and democratic government" in Serbia after the success of
the ultra-nationalist Radical party in elections on Sunday.
Javier Solana said he hoped "very much there will be a speedy formation
of a government that will be on the line of pro-European forces".
"The majority voted for forces that are democratic and pro-European,"
Solana said as he arrived for a meeting of EU foreign ministers to
discuss the 27-member bloc's strategy towards Belgrade in the light of
the vote.
The hardline Radical party attracted the most support in the election,
achieving 28 per cent of the vote.
But it is unclear whether it can form a government and the party's
deputy leader, Tomislav Nikolic, says he does not expect to be invited
to form the next government.
Nikolic said he expected the Serbian president, Boris Tadic, "will not
give us the mandate".
"Tadic already said last night that he would not respect the democratic
principle and he would not give a mandate to the Serbian Radical Party,"
Nikolic said.
He said the pro-Western parties would have a hard time forming a
coalition and forecast that it would be shortlived and that more
elections would be held before the end of the year.
Western appeals
Solana denied that the vote demonstrated the failure of Western efforts
to quell nationalist feelings in Serbia.
The West told Serbs before the election that they should turn their
backs on nationalism if they hoped to join the EU and Nato.
But many Serbs appeared to have ignored those appeals.
Tadic, the West's great hope, led his opposition Democratic party to
about 23 per cent of the vote, well behind the Radical party.
The EU froze a stabilisation and association agreement (SAA) with
Belgrade in May over its failure to surrender Ratko Mladic, the former
Bosnian Serb army chief, who was believed to be hiding in Serbia.
He is wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia for war crimes in the conflict in Bosnia in the mid-1990s.
Vojislav Seselj, the Radical party's official leader, remains on trial
at the tribunal in the Hague.The European Union's foreign policy chief
has said he stills hopes for a "pro-European and democratic government"
in Serbia after the success of the ultra-nationalist Radical party in
elections on Sunday.
Javier Solana said he hoped "very much there will be a speedy formation
of a government that will be on the line of pro-European forces".
"The majority voted for forces that are democratic and pro-European,"
Solana said as he arrived for a meeting of EU foreign ministers to
discuss the 27-member bloc's strategy towards Belgrade in the light of
the vote.
The hardline Radical party attracted the most support in the election,
achieving 28 per cent of the vote.
But it is unclear whether it can form a government and the party's
deputy leader, Tomislav Nikolic, says he does not expect to be invited
to form the next government.
Nikolic said he expected the Serbian president, Boris Tadic, "will not
give us the mandate".
"Tadic already said last night that he would not respect the democratic
principle and he would not give a mandate to the Serbian Radical Party,"
Nikolic said.
He said the pro-Western parties would have a hard time forming a
coalition and forecast that it would be shortlived and that more
elections would be held before the end of the year.
Western appeals
Solana denied that the vote demonstrated the failure of Western efforts
to quell nationalist feelings in Serbia.
The West told Serbs before the election that they should turn their
backs on nationalism if they hoped to join the EU and Nato.
But many Serbs appeared to have ignored those appeals.
Tadic, the West's great hope, led his opposition Democratic party to
about 23 per cent of the vote, well behind the Radical party.
The EU froze a stabilisation and association agreement (SAA) with
Belgrade in May over its failure to surrender Ratko Mladic, the former
Bosnian Serb army chief, who was believed to be hiding in Serbia.
He is wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia for war crimes in the conflict in Bosnia in the mid-1990s.
Vojislav Seselj, the Radical party's official leader, remains on trial
at the tribunal in the Hague.
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