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Dacic: Peru recognized Kosovo; however, it supports us in Security Council (RTS, TV N1)

Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic assessed his visit to Peru as of historic importance, since it is in the interest of Serbia to renew relations with this country, RTS reports. He added, strategic relations between the two countries and Serbia’s presence in this region are the most important topics to discuss. “From such friendly relations a friendly attitude related to the problems Serbia has with Kosovo would come out,” Dacic noted.

“Stance of European Union: There is absolutely no change” (Tanjug, B92)

Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia, Sem Fabrizi said the stance of the European Union is clear and there is no change in the format of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, Tanjug news agency reported. Asked to comment on a statement of the European Parliament Rapporteur for Serbia David McAllister on possible Russia and US involvement in the dialogue, Fabrizi said the stance is very clear, the EU is there to support the dialogue between the two sides and is doing so based on the mandate it received from the UN General Assembly. “Therefore, there is absolutely no change in the format.

"Logical for future Belgrade-Pristina deal to go through UN" (TV Happy, Tanjug, B92)

Ivica Dacic on Thursday reiterated that the UN Security Council would be "a logical instance that should follow if Belgrade and Pristina reach an agreement." "That's a logical sequence of events. Everything we agree on must go through some foreign body in order to gain international legitimacy, in order to verify what we have agreed," the Serbian Foreign Minister and First Deputy PM told Happy TV. Dacic was commenting on EU's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, saying this week a future agreement between Serbs and Albanians would have to be accepted by the UN Security Council.

Dacic: Mogherini’s statement does not mean change in format of negotiations (RTS, Tanjug)

The statement of EU High Representative Federica Mogherini that the UN Security Council would have to verify the Belgrade-Pristina agreement does not mean there would be a change in the format of the negotiations, Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic told RTS. Dacic added there are no negotiations at all, and Pristina “may hang its platform on the wall as a newspaper or internal announcement.”   Dacic also noted Serbia was always saying any agreement that might have been reached would need to be verified by the UN, as a world organization. “In order to have a v

Drecun: Serbia will not leave its people at Pristina’s merciless (RTS)

Chairman of the Serbian National Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan Drecun told RTS that in a case of a massive violence taking place in Kosovo, and if KFOR can not or does not want to react, Serbia would not leave its people at Pristina’s merciless. Speaking for the RTS news edition, Drecun also assessed the statement of EU High Representative Federica Mogherini that the final agreement between Belgrade and Pristina must be in line with international law, but also get support of the UN Security Council “as very significant.” “This statement indicates the direction in resolv

Russia reacts on Britain accepting “Kosovo army” (RTS, TASS, Tanjug)

Commenting on a statement of British Ambassador to UN, Karen Pierce, who at the latest UNSC session on Kosovo said that “Pristina has a right to have an army,” Russian Embassy in London reacted assessing that the Great Britain and other Western states ignore the threat that forming of the so-called Kosovo army could represent to the Serbian population in Kosovo and Metohija. The Russian Embassy in a statement underlined that a possibility of forming so-called Kosovo army represents a direct threat against the Serbs who live in Kosovo and would drastically increase the potentional for a new so