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| SERBIA CHOSE EUROPE 04/02/2008 |
| (2008-02-04) |
| Last updated: 2008-02-05 14:10 EET |
Serbia has chosen the road towards the European Union, something political analysts across the world agreed on when they heard the results of the second round of Sunday’s presidential election in that country. Ultranationalist candidate Tomislav Nikolici admitted defeat and congratulated the west leaning Boris Tadici for winning a second term in office as head of state. Our correspondent in Belgrade, Stefan Tetin, tells us how Tadici’s supporters received the news of his re-election:
“Thousands of Belgrade’s residents and other people from Serbia celebrated until the early hours of the morning the victory of the pro-western president Boris Tadici. The first unofficial preliminary results provided by the Centre for Free and Democratic Elections, which had announced Tadici’s victory, were officially confirmed by Serbia’s Central Electoral Commission. Tadici won 52.4% of the votes and his challenger Tomislav Nikolici got 45.4%, while a record turnout of 66.5% was reported, the highest since the fall of the Milosevici regime in October 2000.”
After the announcement of his victory, Boris Tadici said he wanted peace and collaboration with all nations, but that he also wanted Serbia to be respected as a state. He promised the Serbs in Kosovo that he would never let them down. The situation of this majority Albanian province is in fact the only issue on which the two candidates seemed to agree. Nikolici said the fight for Kosovo was not over and that he had asked Russia to continue advocating Serbia’s integrity. Our correspondent in the region, Cristina Dumitrescu:
“In Pristina, the leaders of the Kosovar Albanians along with ordinary people and the media tried to ignore the presidential elections in Serbia. The Kosovar politicians seemed to be interested solely in the proclamation of Kosovo’s independence. Kosovo’s president Fatmir Sejdiu, tried to play down the importance of the election in Serbia, saying the voting in Belgrade had nothing to do with Kosovo, that it was simply an election taking place in a neighbouring country. He reiterated that it was a matter of days until Kosovo proclaimed its independence.”
Unlike the United States and the majority of European states, Romania repeatedly said it had no intention of recognising Kosovo’s independence. A few days ago, president Traian Basescu said such a move would be tantamount to a contortion of international law because it would violate the United Nations Charter and the Helsinki Final Act, two documents which have managed to secure decades of peace in Europe.
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