JELKO KACIN: NO ONE NECESSITATED FORMATION OF GOVERNMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH BADINTER PRINCIPLE
admin1 – May 16, 2007 – 12:37pm

European Parliament member Jelko Kacin from Slovenia said that formation of a Government in accordance with the Badinter principal was not the intent of the Badinter Commission and no document of this commission contains such recommendation.

"No assessment (of the Badinter Commission) advises who should form the government. This is a decision of the mandatary," Kacin told "Utrinski Vesnik". He assessed that the problem in Macedonia is the confrontation between the Albanian political parties. BDI, which won the majority of the ethnic Albanians' votes, believes that it should be in the Government.

Kacin said that the EU parliamentarians' aim is to determine with Milososki the first possible date for start of the negotiations and decide what Macedonia needs to do first to make progress.

Jelko Kacin also submitted an amendment in which he asked that Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, and Italy not be mentioned in Meyer's report as countries whose political structures should be used as a model for the political structure of Macedonia.