Dacic: Reactions to Vucic's approach in Brussels positive

BAKU - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said on Thursday reactions in the EU, the US and elsewhere to Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic's approach to the most recent round of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue in Brussels were positive.

Speaking to Tanjug in Baku, where he attended a Non-Aligned Movement Contact Group Summit, Dacic said that, at the same time, pressure on Serbia was culminating ahead of discussions on an implementation plan Pristina's PM Albin Kurti had sought to avoid.

He said the EU had rejected a proposal by Kurti that a framework agreement be signed without an implementation plan.

"It would not have been the first time for them that something has been signed but never implemented, because that is just what happened with a Community of Serb Municipalities," he said.

Dacic said some new ideas were emerging now that were, in fact, old ideas - internationalisation of the issue of ethnic Albanians in the so-called Presevo Valley in the south of central Serbia.

"It just so happened that they (ethnic Albanian representatives) are at the State Department right now," Dacic added ironically, referring to a recent Facebook post by Saip Kamberi, an ethnic Albanian representative in the Serbian parliament.

Dacic said this was about putting more pressure on Vucic to reduce Serbia's insistence on the establishment of a Community of Serb Municipalities.