Belgrade and Pristina will not exchange offices
Ivica Dacic, Serbia's prime minister and interior minister, said that Belgrade and Pristina would not talk about opening offices in the other city when they resume their dialogue.
(KosovoCompromiseStuff) Monday, November 05, 2012
"No offices will be opened, we are talking about liaison officers who will be in charge of implementing our agreements - no offices are on the agenda," Dacic told Radio and Television of Serbia on Saturday night.
Kosovo's Prime Minister Hasim Tacic said two days ago at a government session in Pristina that he expected the main topic of his November 7 meeting with Dacic to be the opening of liaison offices - Pristina's in Belgrade and vice versa, news site Telegrafi.com reported.
Dacic said the upcoming meeting in Brussels was "not any kind of key meeting," but a continuation of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.
"You have heard (EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs) Catherine Ashton - she has said publicly that there will be no pressure on the parties in the dialogue, and everyone will accept what they think they can accept," said Dacic.
Belgrade has a proposal for a lasting solution, and if we cannot agree on this, we can work on solving some issues which are important for everyday life, he said.
Dacic said the dialogue would also address the implementation of earlier agreements and the issue of religious and cultural heritage.
He said one of the topics was the financing of Serbs in Kosovo, noting that all the EU wanted was transparency.
This is not a problem because "we are not financing anything secretly," said the prime minister.
Kosovo's Prime Minister Hasim Tacic said two days ago at a government session in Pristina that he expected the main topic of his November 7 meeting with Dacic to be the opening of liaison offices - Pristina's in Belgrade and vice versa, news site Telegrafi.com reported.
Dacic said the upcoming meeting in Brussels was "not any kind of key meeting," but a continuation of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.
"You have heard (EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs) Catherine Ashton - she has said publicly that there will be no pressure on the parties in the dialogue, and everyone will accept what they think they can accept," said Dacic.
Belgrade has a proposal for a lasting solution, and if we cannot agree on this, we can work on solving some issues which are important for everyday life, he said.
Dacic said the dialogue would also address the implementation of earlier agreements and the issue of religious and cultural heritage.
He said one of the topics was the financing of Serbs in Kosovo, noting that all the EU wanted was transparency.
This is not a problem because "we are not financing anything secretly," said the prime minister.
