Greece's non-recognition of so-called Kosovo is key for Serbia: Dacic on political relations

Serbia and Greece will sign the declaration on the establishment of a strategic partnership today, while Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic says that Serbia has such declarations only with Russia, China, Italy and France.

"The declaration should have been signed long ago. The document implies a series of common positions on the most important issues, mutual support around the most important issues for each of our countries and a host of other general political positions regarding our brotherly and strategic relations," Dacic told RTS.

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He stressed that Serbia has exceptionally good political relations with Greece and that economic relations should be improved.

What is crucial for Serbia, as he said, is that Greece doesn't recognize Kosovo and is among the five EU countries that have not done so.

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He recalls that there had been pressure on Athens, that Kosovo's economic office has been opened, but that both the prime minister and the president of Greece confirmed that they would not change their position regarding the southern Serbian province.

"We will also introduce an additional trilateral with Cyprus, which will further strengthen our positions because Cyprus traditionally has a strong stand against such unilateral acts regarding the territorial integrity of a country," Dacic stressed.

He reiterated the importance also of Greece's strong support for Serbia's path to the EU.

One of the topics during the visit of the Serbian delegation to Greece will be the migrant crisis, and Dacic says this is an EU problem that is spilling over onto "our shoulders" as well.

"The EU doesn't have a common approach to all this and then the countries on the route are in most danger. There is no mutual solidarity between countries, there is no common policy on how to deal with it. Therefore, that is a big problem," he said.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)