The situation is currently such that we have a good opportunity to solve the issue of Kosovo and Metohija with a compromise, Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said.
Dacic also pointed out that he “does not know whether and when there will be a better opportunity.”
The position of Russia has changed by it becoming a great power, and one that now much closer to Serbia than it did 20 years ago – while the United States and its foreign policy have also changed, according to the minister.
According to him, the opportunity for dialogue has opened, Serbia has achieved closer relations with Germany, France, as well as with Turkey, white it has become China’s strategic partner.
“At this stage, we have a situation where the EU is also realizing that Albanians are the problem in reaching a compromise. Albanians want us to recognize them, plus if they could take Medvedja, Presevo (municipalities in the southern part of central Serbia) (…), that would be ideal for them. In that situation a possibility of a compromise solution opens up. If we already have a dialogue, you have to have a proposal in that dialogue,” Dacic told TV Pink, according to Tanjug.
He said he believed that the new US Assistant Secretary of State Wesa Mitchell was a key event that changed Serbia’s relationship with the US administration.
According to Dacic, Mitchell was the first representative of the US administration who was interested in the problems in the Balkans and was willing to “listen to us and to have understanding for our positions.”
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