Balkan Region Stabillity

Serbia, cooperation with U.S. continuing

Photo AP: Michael Mullen and Zdravko Ponoš
20 October 2008

VS Commander-in-Chief General Zdravko Ponoš says that military relations with the U.S. must continue to develop for the sake of regional stability.He said that despite the fact that the two countries had completely opposing positions regarding Kosovo, cooperation was necessary.

After meeting with Admiral Michael Mullen, the U.S. chairman of the Joint Chiefs-of-Staff, Ponoš reiterated that relations between the two countries had been bad during the 1990s, but that much had been done since 2003 to improve those relations. Ponoš said that despite political differences, economic and cultural relations between Serbia and the United States were continuing, adding that he did not see why military relations should not develop further.