"It is necessary to heal past wounds and to open up to the future, and not only for political reasons and with a view to European integration: the government, and in particular, President of the Republic Boris Tadic, are finally aware that the country and the population need to recover serenity, unity, stability and peace", and the "very European integration process" may also help for that. It was Msgr. Stanislav Hocevar’s explanation of the gesture of collaboration of Serbian authorities with the International Criminal Court at The Hague, on the day after the news of the arrest of former Serbian Bosnian President Radovan Karadzic. Msgr. Stanislav Hocevar is the metropolitan archbishop of Beograd. "The process which has just begun in Serbia said Msgr. Hocevar will be rather long because of different parties and trends, but it is important that President Tadic and the government pledge themselves to promote even gradually the inner catharsis which the population really needs". In this perspective, yesterday’s arrest is "the sign of the internal decision to heal past wounds and to open up to the future, and this is a remarkable hope for the young, too, who are often tempted by discouragement". (To be continued) ” “
