Saturday, November 2, 2013

 Erdogan Issue

 Three agreements with Turkey withdrawn from parliament

BELGRADE -- The Serbian government has withdrawn three bills from parliamentary procedure, that had been drafted to confirm three agreements reached with Turkey.
(Tanjug, file)
(Tanjug, file)
The government offered no reasons for the decision.
The government on October 28 notified the Serbian parliament that the bills had been withdrawn.

The drafts were to be discussed by MPs during the session that started on Thursday.

The agreements covered mutual legal aid in civil and trade issues, mutual legal aid in criminal matters, and extradition.

The decision came after Serbia's top state officials strongly condemned a statement made by Turkish PM Recep Erdogan during his visit to Kosovo last month.

While in the town of Prizren, he said that "Kosovo is Turkey, and Turkey Kosovo." Turkish FM Ahmet Davutoglu later said that the statement was "misinterpreted."

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić in the meanwhile announced that he had "frozen" his participation in trilateral meetings organized by Serbia, Bosnia, and Turkey.

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