I don't regret allowing Serbia to join us
George Monbiot expressed his indignation about Serbia taking up the chairmanship of the Council of Europe, proving that high moral ground is not the best place for shooting from the hip (The price of being left alone has been the tolerance of mass murder, May 8).Monbiot argues that Serbia's human-rights record should disqualify the country from running "Europe's official human-rights organisation". He also writes that a decision that this country is unfit to run the Council of Europe "looks uncomplicated and free from political cost".
Monbiot is missing the point. The issue is not the Serbian chairmanship of the committee of ministers, but whether Serbia should be allowed to be a member of the Council of Europe at all.… Seguir leyendo »