Ljajić: Serbia is not entitled to renounce its property (RTS, Kossev, IRS)
Serbian Deputy PM and Minister of Trade and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajić said that one of the main topics during talks in Brussels would be the issue of Serbian property in Kosovo-Metohija, adding that Serbia is not entitled to give up its property there. He told RTS that the total value of Serbian property, including road, telecommunication and energy infrastructure and business facilities in Kosmet until 1990 amounted to some 17 billion dollars. That does not include the value of agricultural, construction and wood land, mines, buildings and residential facilities as well, he said, which will be one of the major topics for Serbia during talks in Brussels. He assessed that Pristina would most probably try to evade the topic, adding that, since the very start, it has been obstructing the property issue in the field of telecommunications, which Serbia proposed as one of the first topics, i.e. the value of the Serbian Post and Telecom property.