THE STABILITY PACT FOR SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE: EXPECTATIONS AND RESULTS
THE STABILITY PACT FOR SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE: EXPECTATIONS AND RESULTS

Author(s): Nebojša Vučinić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Governance, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development, Geopolitics
Published by: CEDET Centar za demokratsku tranziciju
Keywords: tabilization; pacification; integration; democratization; human and minority rights; rule of law; market economy; cooperation; good neighborly relations
Summary/Abstract: The Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe represents a specific inter­ national agreement signed on June 10, 1999 in Keln, in order to realize a very specific and difficult political task: the accomplishment of long-term pacifica­ tion, stabilization and democratization of South-Eastern Europe (the Balkans) as a part of a wider, global process of preparing the region for incorporation into Euro-Atlantic development. The Pact foresees the realization of a number of necessary institutional and socio-structural premises for long lasting peace in this region and the inclusion of these states in the process of European integra­tion. These goals should be achieved in three main areas, in successive, short­ term but time-unspecified, political processes: the advancement of democracy and human rights; the accomplishment, of economic renewal, reconstruction, development and co-operation; and the realization of the complete internal and external safety of the countries under consideration and of the region as a whole.

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