Brussels, 10/10/2005 (Agence Europe) - On 10 October in Belgrade, Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn gave the signal for negotiations between the EU and Serbia-Montenegro to begin with a view to concluding a Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA). Last Monday, the General Affairs/External Relations Council had given the Commission the go-ahead to start the talks (see EUROPE 9040). “This is a day that Serbia-Montenegro and its citizens have been waiting for a long while”, the president of Serbia Montenegro, Svetozar Marovic, said on this occasion. The “destiny of millions of people in Serbia-Montenegro hoping for a better future is more important than the future of those who are indicted for war crimes by the International Tribunal in The Hague”, Mr Marovic said, referring to his country's obligations to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Marovic also said he hoped Radovan Karadzic and Radko Mladic would be arrested and taken before the ICTY in the near future, in the “interest of Serbia-Montenegro and its road towards Europe”.