Dacic: This round of dialogue confirms all Belgrade's fears, Pristina doesn't want to implement what's agreed

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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia Ivica Dacic assessed that the new round of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue held in Brussels on May 2 confirmed all the fears Belgrade had, and the statements made by Serbian officials during all these years, that Pristina absolutely does not want to implement what it agreed to in the Brussels Agreement from 2013, but also the latest agreements and arrangements, such as those from Ohrid.

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It is obvious that we have reached the point when that will have to be clearly visible, Dacic told RTS and recalled that "everyone was saying" that the prime minister of the provisional institutions in Pristina, Albin Kurti, "must be flexible," reports Tanjug.

Dacic reminded that Kurti's cooperation, which was the justification for voting (by some countries) in favor of Kosovo's membership in the Council of Europe, was absent and stressed that he is interested in what will happen to that procedure now if Pristina says that it will not form the ZSO (Community of Serb Municipalities).

The minister asked how the need for Kosovo to become a member of the Council of Europe (CoE) will now be justified going forward.

"Now they will have to stop the process again," said Dacic.

The minister also recalled the words of the US special envoy, Gabriel Escobar, who said that the ZSO will be formed with or without Kurti, but, he added, that proved everything that President Aleksandar Vucic has been saying.

"Now we are interpreting, everything that happened was supposed to be a step in normalization, and what kind of normalization do we have? Every day we have some kind of complication, Kurti is now trying to bring into power those elected in the supposed elections in which 13 Serbs cast their ballots, to open the bridge, he will try to take down Serbian flags... that means there will be war, do they think that the Serbs will calmly observe that, and what's the purpose, is it part of normalization," asked Dacic and warned that it is part of the straining of relations.

He recalled that Belgrade had been warning the international community all along about Kurti's position, which is to provoke the Serbs in Kosovo and expel them.

(Telegraf.rs)