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GERMAN AMBASSADOR SAYS SERBIA IMPROVES IMAGE

BELGRADE, Oct 4 (Beta) - German Ambassador in Serbia Wolfram Maas has said that Serbia has successfully restored its image in Europe. "The forming of a proEuropean cabinet, along with the new government's decisive actions in the arrest of Radovan Karadzic and the strong leadership of the country on its European path is impressive. Every country in the world has noticed this," Maas said in an interview with the Oct. 4 edition of the Blic newspaper. Maas said the fact that Serbian President Boris Tadic had received the Quadriga award for contributions to regional peace and stability in Berlin, further fortified an image "different from the one that Europe had of Serbia only a year earlier." He said that Karadzic's arrest had shown that Serbia was capable of extraditing war crimes suspects, including Ratko Mladic, which, he said, would remove the last political obstacle.