Commerce will develop worldwide in the years to come-the European Union and the USA being no exception, though top priority in other economic contacts will belong to Russia, Ukraine, the Balkans, Middle East and China.
Serbia is going through hard times, and needs international economic assistance. It, however, places emphasis on self-reliance, and has ample chances for it, what with its riches and lucrative geography of a bridge between East and West, and Europe and Asia. "Too many regard loans as gifts. They are wrong. A loan is a heavy debt-you have to pay back more than you get," remarked the minister.
Serbia must hurry with determining economic strategies. As our interviewee sees it, priority here belongs to farming, power industry, and the transport network. Other economic spheres are also entitled to their share of attention, but those three are destined to come as pillars of national economic revival.
When asked how he saw Serbia's political future, the minister-who leads the Serb Revival Movement-called for constitutional monarchy re-established. His party first came out with it back in 1990, though it has never made it a proviso. Serbia must be a democracy, and that matters most.
Now is not yet the time to tackle future administrative patterns. More essential tasks are at hand. "We are in a dramatic and trying situation. We cannot afford to mark time any longer, and we have no right to make blunders," Mr. Draskovic rounded off the interview.
