Serbian president to meet with EU’s Ashton

According to announcements, he will meet with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton on the sidelines of the session.

The meeting will be an opportunity to clear some statements given both by Nikolic and EU member states.

In his speech before the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, the Serbian president said that he did not see the point in the Kosovo or the EU dilemma and that he could not put such a question before the citizens.

At the same time Nikolic promised to implement the agreements reached with Pristina but stressed that it seemed to him that the dialogue represented fulfillment of wishes of the Albanian side.

The Serbian president met with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and pointed out that he expected NATO to perform its duties in Kosovo in a status neutral manner.

Commenting on speculations that Ashton could offer some kind of agreement on good neighborly relations between Belgrade and Pristina as a starting point for the continuation of the negotiations, Nikolić said that he "is not an interlocutor" in such talks.

"Mrs. Ashton knows that I am not an interlocutor for talks on good relations with Kosovo as a state. She has an interlocutor in me for a good life in Kosovo, for peace and security, for investments but not for being good neighbors one day and I think that the Serbian citizens know that very well and that they elected me because of it," he told The news .

The president also asked Serbian politicians not to come out with their own ideas, such as statements on the partition or good neighborly relations with Kosovo until Belgrade reached a consensus on a program it wanted to implement in Kosovo.

He noted that he did not want to sit at the negotiating table with Kosovo's PM Hashim Thaci until there was suspicion that he was directly involved in crimes against the Serbs and until the international investigation proved that those allegations were not true.

Thaci has already met with Ashton in New York. He is not allowed to participate in debates at the 67th sitting of the UN General Assembly but he is present under the UNMIK auspices.