Karić urged the Serbian government to extend the country's moratorium on nuclear power in late 2012, after the president of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts said that the moratorium would be reviewed in three years' time. Karić was quoted as saying on the matter, "Japan has perhaps the most advanced technology [in the world], but even this technology could not stand up to the earthquake and the tsunami. Nuclear power plants in Europe go through rigorous tests and most of them would not withstand a serious earthquake." He later said that Serbia should defer talks to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) rather than succumbing to pressure from that organization to overturn a national ban on genetically modified foods.