Gordana Comic: The Goal Is to Eliminate Negative Remarks from European Commission Reports on the Rule of Law | Beta Briefing

Gordana Comic: The Goal Is to Eliminate Negative Remarks from European Commission Reports on the Rule of Law

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Archive / News | 18.11.20 | access_time 13:48

Gordana Comic (Beta/Milos Miskov)

Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue Minister Gordana Comic has said that the task of her ministry is to eliminate, in the next year and a half, all or most of the negative remarks from the European Commission’s reports on Serbia’s progress over the last five years.

In an interview for BETA on Nov. 18 Comic said that should be achieved by changing the attitude of public officials and “by [our] provable moves seeking the benefit of the doubt for Serbia that we do have a potential for change and that we are changing Serbia through dialogue.”

Comic admitted that on many occasions in the past she had criticized Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic for verbal violence, but added, responding to a question whether she now thinks that the president has changed and has become more polite, that the president of the country also deserves to be given the benefit of the doubt she is seeking “for Serbia on the international scene.

”“The opposition in its statements also resorts to verbal violence. I am searching for a space into which, regardless of how much we disagree, the benefit of the doubt can be introduced so that a dialogue can be initiated,” Comic said.

Comic responded with a “yes” to a question whether today the rights of the people not in possession of a membership card of any of the ruling parties, primarily the Serbian Progressive Party, are endangered in the sense that they cannot obtain a job in the state sector or be promoted.

She added that no one can be given privileges due to their political affiliation over the professionally capable and educated people. “We will have to understand that it is bad for all, for both the government and the opposition, for human rights and the rule of law,” the minister said.

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