President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday he regretted that his idea of establishing a final compromise boundary between Serbs and Albanians has failed.
As he said, the idea failed because "our people thought differently, and that will cost us dearly in two to three decades."
Minister Nenad Popovic responded to yesterday's statement by Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, stating that the idea of a "delineation of Kosovo" cannot be an official policy because it is contrary to the Constitution.
"I'm glad that Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, in just 24 hours, changed his mind on the idea of 'delineation', and he no longer claims that such an idea is an official state policy, but says it is a proposal of some state officials,'' Popovic says in a statement delivered to Tanjug.
Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said on Wednesday that delineation with Kosovo was not an official proposal but an idea among some of the state leaders, thus correcting the statement he made one day earlier saying that delineation with Kosovo is Serbia’s official proposal to resolve the Kosovo issue, BETA news agency reported.
Dacic said if the idea would become the official proposal it would be presented to the National Assembly, while the citizens would have a final word on it, in a referendum.
Leader of Peoples’ Party and Chair of Alliance for Serbia (SZS) Vuk Jeremic assessed yesterday that delineation, which, according to the Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic represents an official Belgrade’s position in negotiations with Pristina, is “a fig leaf” for Kosovo recognition, BETA news agency reported.
Jeremic also underlined “how something that National Assembly is not informed about, let even decided about it, can become a state policy?”
Outgoing Kosovo Minister for Communities and Returns, Dalibor Jevtic told Voice of America, he does not know what an idea on delineation encompasses, and that he is not personally familiar with that idea. However, Jevtic added that any agreement leading towards a lasting peace should be supported.
Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said the idea on delineation between Serbs and Albanians, that might include and border correction, “has not been put aside,” BETA news agency reported.
He added this idea represents “the only concrete initiative”.
Speaking for Blic daily Sunday’s edition, Dacic stressed “the status quo is impossible condition,” and it would result with Serbs vanishing from Kosovo and Metohija, as well as taking over Serbian cultural and religious heritage sites in Kosmet.”