SERBIA: MSGR. HOCEVAR (BEOGRAD), "NO HURRIED CHOICES FOR KOSOVO"

A reformation process to face poverty, mafia and corruption; creating a widespread education system; going on towards the EU but without putting the Serbian identity at risk. As for the International Crime Court and Kosovo: an invitation "to purify history by starting from the Second World War, and not from the nineties, without hurried choices". After the re-election of Boris Tadic as president of Serbia (on Sunday, 3rd February), the metropolitan archbishop of Beograd, Msgr. Stanislaw Hocevar, talked about the priorities of the country. In an interview with SIR (see old.agensir.it), the archbishop stated that the election pointed out "a clear inclination to Europe and the request for more attention to poverty and the struggle against mafia and corruption". According to Hocevar, "the vote is an invitation to all politicians to operate with the aim of improving the conditions of the people, by carrying out reformations. It is also an invitation to Europe for concretely helping the people and not just encouraging the population to join the EU". "Serbia misses also a widespread system of schools, institutes and universities", denounced the archbishop, according to whom the possible EU entry "must not put the Serbian identity at risk". Serbian identity is made up of "an Oriental Christian culture". (To be continued)