BELGRADE - Director of the Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric said Friday it was Serbia’s great interest to see that stability and the rule of law were there in KiM, arguing that the current situation in the province was worse than before the Brussels agreement.

According to a statement from the Office for KiM, Djuric made the statement at a meeting in Belgrade with representatives of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs - the ministry's political director and chief of its EU enlargement department - and with Swedish Ambassador to Serbia Christer Asp.

The officials talked about the European integration process and the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina and stressed the importance of fully implementing agreements reached within the framework of the EU-brokered deal between Belgrade and Pristina that was signed on April 19, 2013.

Djuric said that the key priority for the Serbian community in Kosovo-Metohija is to set up an association of Serb municipalities and expressed the expectation that the conditions to speed up the process would be created after the provincial government was finally set up.