Dinkic: Serbia has made maximal concessions
Leader of the ruling United Regions of Serbia (URS) Mladjan Dinkic has stated that there should be no additional pressure on the Serbian delegation in the new round of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue on Kosovo in Brussels, because Serbia has made maximal concessions.
(kosovocompromisestuff) Friday, April 19, 2013
I expect the EU to make it clear to Pristina that it should give up on a request for Serbia not to block Kosovo's UN membership, Mladjan Dinkic told Belgrade-based daily Danas.
The finance minister pointed out that the request, which had not been mentioned in the previous rounds at all, was presented by Kosovo Prime Minister Hasim Taci at the end of the ninth round of the dialogue, qualifying this as "totally unacceptable."
"If Pristina withdrew this point from the proposal, we would be very close to a historic agreement," the minister stressed, adding that most of the Brussels proposal is far better for Serbia than what was on the table earlier.
"We will not accept Kosovo's membership in the UN, not even at the cost of not getting a date for the start of EU accession talks," said Dinkic, also the minister of finance.
Dinkic pointed out that Serbia has showed a maximum of constructiveness and that it is willing to make an agreement with Pristina, which is why he expects that it will obtain the date in June.
The finance minister pointed out that the request, which had not been mentioned in the previous rounds at all, was presented by Kosovo Prime Minister Hasim Taci at the end of the ninth round of the dialogue, qualifying this as "totally unacceptable."
"If Pristina withdrew this point from the proposal, we would be very close to a historic agreement," the minister stressed, adding that most of the Brussels proposal is far better for Serbia than what was on the table earlier.
"We will not accept Kosovo's membership in the UN, not even at the cost of not getting a date for the start of EU accession talks," said Dinkic, also the minister of finance.
Dinkic pointed out that Serbia has showed a maximum of constructiveness and that it is willing to make an agreement with Pristina, which is why he expects that it will obtain the date in June.
