Croatian Minister of Foreign Affairs: Serbia should not resort to Cold War methods if it wants to move towards the EU faster

"It's a shame that Serbia chose that path, especially when it wants to become a member of the EU. We need to work on friendly relations between the countries of the Western Balkans and promote regional stability. This is more reminiscent of Cold War rhetoric."

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Gordan Grlić Radman, Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Photo: Boris Pejović
Gordan Grlić Radman, Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Photo: Boris Pejović
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Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Gordan Grlić Radman said today in Sarajevo that Serbia should not avoid cooperation and resort to Cold War methods in interstate relations if it wants to speed up the path to the European Union and build regional stability.

Answering the questions of journalists during his visit to Sarajevo, Grlić Radman said that "it is regrettable that Serbia reached for the expulsion of the first secretary of the Croatian embassy in Belgrade, Hrvoj Šnajder, especially since no reasons for this were stated in the decision", HINA reports.

Grlić Radman stated that such decisions "do not build good neighborly relations" and that "it also sends a bad message when it comes to values ​​and criteria that should be applied on the way to membership in the European Union".

"It's a shame that Serbia chose that path, especially when it wants to become a member of the EU. We need to work on friendly relations between the countries of the Western Balkans and promote regional stability. This is more reminiscent of Cold War rhetoric," Grlić Radman added.

He pointed out that Croatia "has been waiting a long time for Serbia's response" to the invitation for meetings where concrete issues in the field of bilateral relations would be resolved.

Relations between Belgrade and Zagreb were strained again this week, after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia declared Šnejder an undesirable person, citing the violation of the Vienna Convention as the reason. The Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of Croatia then declared Petar Novaković, adviser at the Embassy of Serbia in Zagreb, an undesirable person.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Ivica Dacic, said last night that Zagreb was informed about the evidence collected by Belgrade about Schneider's activities, stating that he is "not an intelligence official, but a diplomat" and that he cannot deal with anything that does not belong to the domain of diplomatic affairs. . He added that there is no evidence that the exiled Novaković violated the Vienna Convention.

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