Djuric: Final decision based on thorough assessment

Unfortunately, it is completely clear that Serbia will face great challenges and losses in both cases, Djuric told. He stated that Belgrade's negotiating team should decide by Tuesday afternoon on the offer presented during the latest round of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue held in Brussels three days ago. Djuric pointed out that the offer is not at all different from the eight points presented after the last, eighth round of talks with Pristina. "No additional powers for the Serb community are mentioned there, no security or legal guarantees are mentioned, neither as the absence of Kosovo security forces in areas where Serbs live or at least in northern Kosovo," Djuric explained. The presidential advisor still believes that "the dialogue held in the past period was not futile and that the fact that there have been some talks represents progress." "We believe it is possible to reach a solution in a real dialogue, but not in one where solutions are being imposed and where one party is expected to accept unilateral agreements, by which it should renounce all its interests," he pointed out. Djuric underlined that Serbia remains committed to the dialogue with Pristina's authorities and that it expects the international community, that is the EU as the mediator, to realize what stabilizing effect the dialogue has so far had on Kosovo and the region and to assess possible harmful consequences if the dialogue ended. On Thursday, Djuric paid a visit to Kosovska Mitrovica and conferred with representatives of four northern Kosovo municipalities.