“Govt. trying to get EU talks date as soon as possible”

Grubješić said that concrete conditions would be defined by the European Council, just like it did in December 2011 and March 2012, and that the main conditions was normalization of relations with Kosovo, "or as they say visible and sustainable progress in the dialogue with Priština and not recognition".

She repeated that in reality Serbia had had no authority in Kosovo since 1999 but that Priština did not have any authority in northern Kosovo either.

"There is room for agreement and for a sustainable solution for the Kosovo issue in that fact. Even though we have been told that the partition of Kosovo is out of the question, it is legitimate to launch the issue of northern Kosovo's status, position of Serbs south of the Ibar River, protection of our churches and monasteries, issue of property of the expelled and finally the issue of return of refugees and the internally displaced. We offer proposals in our negotiating platform for all those and many other issues," the deputy PM stressed.

She explained that thanks to the document Serbia finally had a proactive policy and that it was time to come out with a clear strategy instead of responding to other side's proposals, conditions and ultimatums all the time.