Vucic: Serb municipalities will not join Pristina's association

BRUSSELS - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday that, under the Brussels Agreement, Leposavic, as well as Kosovska Mitrovica and Zvecan, was a part of a Community of Serb Municipalities in Kosovo-Metohija and that the establishment of an ethnic Albanian association of municipalities was a "circus show."

"As you saw today, two of four municipalities in the north (of Kosovo-Metohija) joined Albanian municipalities and I laughed at that and said it was a circus show - in front of Albanian journalists. Those municipalities, like the other two and the remaining six (in the south), will be a part of a Community of Serb Municipalities," Vucic told reporters in Brussels after another round of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina.

He said false members of local assemblies in Leposavic and Kosovska Mitrovica had decided that the municipalities join an ethnic Albanian association on orders from Pristina's PM Albin Kurti.

Asked if the meeting had addressed a withdrawal of Pristina's special forces from the north, Vucic said he had spoken about that but that five hours had been insufficient to discuss all issues.

He noted that he was now even more concerned over the position of Kosovo-Metohija Serbs and that he expected a reaction from the EU.