The Serbian government will hold an urgent session on Thursday regarding “the scandalous demands” presented by the representative of Pristina, Beta reported.
The head of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric announced this late on Wednesday, saying he had briefed Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic on these new conditions for resuming the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.
They were presented by Edita Tahiri, a minister without portfolio in the government in Pristina.
“If Pristina thinks discussions are to be held by setting conditions and ultimatums and is really not prepared to talk in any other way, and if what has been stated is its condition for a resumption of the dialogue, it means they are giving up on the dialogue and that there will be no dialogue,” Djuric told Tanjug.
In any case, the situation is very serious and the public will be informed of further steps, Djuric said in a phone statement from London, where he held a series of meetings at the UK Foreign Office and lectured at the London School of Economics.
Beta reported that Djuric said these demands meant that Pristina was abandoning the dialogue with Belgrade, because it knew in advance that nobody in Serbia would accept them and that they would have nobody to talk to about them.
The Blic daily and TV Pink reported that the Pristina delegation had posed new conditions for maintaining the dialogue with Belgrade, demanding that the EU guarantee that Serbia’s membership in the Union would be made conditional on “recognition of the state of Kosovo.”
According to that information, Pristina is seeking demarcation of the border between “the states of Kosovo and Serbia”, neighborly respect, cooperation in spheres of interest “for both sides”, war reparations and, from the EU, guarantees that Serbia’s membership in the EU will be made conditional on “recognition of the state of Kosovo.”
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