PODGORICA, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) - Montenegro's prime minister Thursday urged Serbia to capture U.N. war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic before a EU deadline, saying it would be good news for the entire Balkan region.
Milo Djukanovic, who advocates Montenegro's independence from a union with Serbia, also said that his tiny republic would move separately toward EU integration if its citizens vote in favor of the Serbia-Montenegro split at an upcoming referendum next month.
"By solving the state's status conditions will be created for Montenegro to move fast on the road to EU integration," Djukanovic said.
He added that Serbia -- which faces possible EU isolation if it does not hand over Mladic to the court in The Hague, Netherlands, by the end of April -- is crucial for stability of the Balkans and also should move closer to Europe.
"That is why it is very important for Serbia to end the deadlock in the process of European integration" by capturing Mladic as demanded by Brussels, Djukanovic said.
Serbia and Montenegro are the only two former Yugoslav republics that stayed together after the bloody breakup of the ex-Balkan federation in the early 1990s. Relations between the two have gradually worsened over the years, with Djukanovic pushing Montenegro towards independence from the Serbia-Montenegro union.
The May 21 independence referendum in Montenegro remains a potentially tense event because of the deep divisions among its 600,000 people over the issue.
Djukanovic in the past has accused Serbia of hampering Montenegro's EU efforts by failing to arrest Mladic and other Serb war crimes suspects sought by the Hague court, in connection with atrocities committed during the wars in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo.
The EU has set an end-of-April deadline for Serbia to hand over Mladic or face suspension of talks on establishing closer ties with the bloc.
Djukanovic said that Mladic's arrest would present "a sure sign that Serbia's state policies were taking a pro-European and democratic turn."
Djukanovic's government passed a declaration on Thursday pledging to continue the talks with the EU separately from Serbia, if Montenegro becomes an independent state after the May vote. The declaration also expressed readiness "to build Montenegro as a modern European country."
The run-up to the vote has been tense following brief arrests earlier this week by the authorities of several supporters of the union with Serbia, and the unionists' temporary walkout from a commission in charge of organizing the vote.
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You didn't even know Ceku existed, why do you think the accusations started after he got elected as PM?
Shkatë are just little bitches who lost a war, got bombed, and now are the shithole of Europe. Go ahead an whine bitch. Even before the war you cocksuckers use to hide behind Chetniks threatning and singing like a cow with mad cow disease. Times up, everyone hates you criminals are running in Belgrade, God sent you a flood, and now Kosova and Montenegro will become independent. Mladic will soon join Hague, then he'll go the same place Sloba went...hell.
By the way do you know where N.Y. cocksucker layers go to? Somewhere hot with lots of free taning.
Long time ago it was something like
U Kosovu se radi ali u Beogradu se radi.
That means
The Kosovo works but Belgrad is building up.
But it seems that now it is opposite
U Beograd se radi al Kosovo se gradi.
NYoutlawyer Çeku did't fought Serbians in Serbia why you have started firstly the war in Croatia.
Even if I was in same situation I'll to fight on the Croatian side not in yours.
And you cannot compare Mladic and Çeku
because Mladic commanded to be massacres 7000 Bosnjaks in Srebrenica. Do you have any facts that Çeku did any thing.
Please don't bleame others for your faults.
And you Serbians are hard line population in Europe if we Albanians are islamic fundamentalists then you should be orthodox fundamentalists.
And you use your churches to coordinate all plans and even how to kill and massacre other peoples.
Oops I almost did forgot something
Only FYRO Macedonia who are orthodox are beind split from ex-Yu without war. With Croatia I just remember what you did in Vukovar (a city that didn't resembled to be a city after conflict) and who did it not only Croatians because they were fight for their land not to conquer.
It is so irrational that Serbians had done here in Balkan or simply their plans became late from Medieval time.
Aftermath Çeku came to Kosovo only after the war.
If we Albanians are such islamic fundamentalists and extremist then why do we have so much support from US and UK, et and why did we have christian boys and girls fighting in the KLA (together with muslim and non-confessional liberators) also. And...why is it that we have elected a Prime minister that is in NO WAY a muslim radical (he is married to a Croation woman and has very good relations with hiS second country-homeland Croatia, which he risked his life for). Also, our speaker of parliament is a catholic (Kolë Berisha).
SO...kiss our arses you serb mother fuckers. Nobody is buying your bull crap.
I am a christian Albanian and I would see every Orthodox serb (i say Orthodox serb) out of the Balkans and back to Russia where they belong!
I am Christian but I fought in the KLA, side by side with my ALBANIAN brothers and sisters of the muslim Christian faiths as well as the many that were non-confessional ALBANIANS (just simple true blue ALBANIANS). To me, all that mattered is that they were fighting our greatest enemy "dirty evil russo-serbs"
Long Live the Albanian Nation in all of their own hereditary lands and whereever else they may be around the globe.
Long live our old and beautiful European language and culture.
I thank the serbs for REALLY AWAKENING THE ALBANIAN NATION TO REALITY.
Bashkim
Ahmet the saying Kosova is working but Serbia is being built up is not because of that. Mine workers of Trepça started that, since Serbia was illegally stealing money, all of it went to Serbia who used that $1 mill+ a day to build bs up.
You Serbia is after the "heritage" in Kosova? No, they want Trepça, well they can keep their filthy hands in their own pockets!
Of course I say that the Trepca was working for many decades all the money went to serbia.
So you can say why the Kosova is not a developed region.
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