"No new EU requirements concerning Kosovo"
Serbian Deputy PM Bozidar Djelic says the EU would not impose any additional requirements before Serbia regarding Kosovo
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Friday, January 21, 2011
They would also not condition the country "with any particular outcome" of the forthcoming Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, according to him.
"No additional requirements will be set down regarding Kosovo, and also no concrete results imposed," Djelic told.
According to Djelic, the recommendations which the European Parliament (EP) gave in the resolution on Serbia will not affect the forthcoming talks, since the EP is not a body which decides on such matters.
"The EU is not a state and it often happens that the European Parliament votes on something beyond its authority. The body can have an opinion, but the decisions about the forthcoming dialogue should be made by EU member countries and Belgrade and Pristina," Djelic underlined.
According to him, the adoption with a narrow majority of the "softened" amendments made by Europe's Greens, which proposed that the status of Kosovo should not be discussed during the dialogue, was an indication that the mood was gradually changing, because for Serbia, when it came to Kosovo, the EP represented the least favorable of European institutions.
