Deputy PM: Agreement only solves small part of problem
Source: Beta, Tanjug
BELGRADE -- Deputy PM Ivica Dačić says the “main part of the problem” will be an attempt to turn the administrative line between Kosovo and central Serbia into border.
Ivica Dačić (Tanjug, file)
He added that only a small part of the problem had been solved with the agreement on the customs stamp.
“That’s what the Serbian delegation is against. We cannot accept a change of the administrative line’s status bearing in mind that Kosovo’s independence would that way be artificially recognized,” the deputy PM explained.
According to him, it is very important that the Belgrade-Priština dialogue is yielding desired results because “there is an obvious wish to solve some things by force” if there is no dialogue.
Dačić believes that Serbia is leading a policy without any hidden intentions but that it constantly has to deal with parties that would like to bring it into a stalemate.
He added that that it was good that the dialogue was bringing specific results that citizens and Serbian companies would benefit from.
The deputy prime minister noted that it was in Serbia’s interest to join the EU, but to do so without jeopardizing its state and national interests.
When asked whether it was possible to have both the EU and Kosovo, Dačić said that those were hypothetical questions.
He believes that Serbian political parties larger than the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) should answer this question.
The deputy PM and interior minister pointed out that the parties should agree what to do if Germany’s proposal was accepted by other EU member states and if an attack was launched on northern Kosovo.
Commenting on his own statement in which he criticized the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) for their claim that the EU would not condition Serbia with Kosovo, he said that he had no intention to criticize SNS leader Tomislav Nikolić but “Europe’s hypocritical stance” that Serbia did not need to recognize Kosovo but that it needed to recognize everything else that made some country independent.
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