07/03/2011 President
Addressing today the National Assembly in Belgrade, PACE President Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu welcomed Serbia’s contribution to the process of reconciliation in the region. “The adoption by the National Assembly of the Declaration condemning the Srebrenica massacre, the recent intensification of the relations with Croatia, as well as the joint visit by President Tadic and President Josipovic to Vukovar, are important steps in this process,” he said.
However, “declarations have to be supported by concrete actions aiming, among others, at resolving the issue of missing persons, promoting effective refugee return and, where appropriate, their local integration,” he stressed, encouraging the country to fully implement PACE Resolution 1786 (2011) on “reconciliation and political dialogue between the countries of the former Yugoslavia.
In addition, Mr Çavusoglu draw attention to the need to complete the implementation of Serbia’s post-accession commitments and statutory obligations to the Council of Europe, one of the key outstanding commitments being the full co-operation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He recalled the Assembly’s recommendation inviting the Serbian Parliament to develop a concrete Roadmap for completing the remaining reforms, in particular the reform of the justice system, the revision of the electoral law, and the elimination of the “party-administered mandates” system.