Clinton, Ashton's visit is "step further on EU pathway"
Serbian PM Ivica Dacic said Sunday that a meeting with Hillary Clinton and Catherine Ashton represented a step forward on Serbia’s EU pathway.
(KosovoCompromiseStuff) Sunday, October 28, 2012
He added that Serbia's President Tomislav Nikolic would also be presented during the meeting with Clinton and Ashton.
U.S. Secretary of State Clinton and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Ashton will visit Belgrade on October 30.
"The talks will be a step further in Serbia's EU integration," Dačić told reporters after a manifestation marking the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Kumanovo in Macedonia.
He said that he expected a joint modus for the solving of all disputable issues for all the parties to be found in the new negotiations and stressed that the Serbian government's platform for Kosovo would not be discussed at the meeting with Ashton and Clinton.
When asked about a solution to the conflict between the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) and unrecognized Macedonian Orthodox Church, the PM said that Serbia and Macedonia had a lot of things in common and that all disputes needed to be solved through talks.
He said that he was not sure whether the two churches wanted the Serbian government to be involved in the solving of the issue but that it was ready to do so if the churches decided they wanted help.
