BELGRADE – Serbia’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said Thursday that the agenda of a new round of dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina had not yet been drawn up and that Serbia expected the implementation of the Brussels agreement to continue from where it was left off.
“So far, we still have no set agenda and we expect to continue where we left off and to get to see the Brussels agreement being implemented,” Dacic told reporters after a meeting at the Foreign Ministry with Chinese Ambassador to Serbia Li Manchang, who handed him a donation of that country.
Dacic said that setting up a community of Serb municipalities in Kosovo-Metohija was of vital interest to Serbia.
Asked whether Belgrade would insist on the property issue being a topic of the next meeting in Brussels, Dacic said that the topic had been “present in the dialogue for quite a while and there were talks about it with former European foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who said that it would be discussed later in the dialogue.”
“Back then, it was the energy sector that was the central issue, rather than Trepca’s assets,” he said, stressing that the issues of property and ownership, very important for the further course of the dialogue, had not been dealt with in any of the deals.
Dacic said that he also will take part in the first meeting of Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, Kosovo’s new prime Minister Isa Mustafa and EU’s new High Representative Federica Mogherini in Brussels on February 9.
