Possible end to talks for IBM breach

Dacic told reporters he was very unhappy with the current imlpementation of the IBM agreement.

"If the IBM agreement is not followed, I am prepared not to take part in the negotiations at all," Dacic noted, pointing out it had been agreed not to charge customs for goods going to northern Kosovo and not cause problems for people without Kosovo documents and registration plates.

The trouble is with moving excise goods to Kosovo, and Belgrade is even willing to limit those goods in order to avoid it being falsely shown as meant for northern Kosovo, but ending up in the south, he said.

The government in Belgrade will decide quickly, based on the situation at the administrative crossings, whether to continue the talks with Pristina, Dacic stated.

Solution for Kosovo with help of int'l community

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic stated Tuesday that, in dialogue with Pristina and the EU, if there is not will to resolve the issue of Kosovo permanently, Serbia has to have suggestions that would lead to protection of Kosovo Serbs' interests.

Commenting on media allegations that Serbia seeks some kind of an entity for the Serbs in Kosovo, Dacic said that this is part of the overall thinking that should be checked with the international community and politicians in Serbia.

"This is not a position for negotiations on a permanent solution. If we do not want to regulate our relations and find a durable solution acceptable both for the Serbs and ethnic Albanians, we have to see how to organize Kosovo Serbs," he noted.

According to him, the policy pursued in the past 13 years was wrong, because the Serbs in Kosovo are not Belgrade's branch office, but indigenous people.

"We need to have an initiative. We believe that Kosovo is part of Serbia, but we have to understand that we lost wars in Croatia and Kosovo and that we cannot act as if we won," Dacic stressed.

In the coming months, Serbia will deal with the issue of Serbian institutions in Kosovo and the special issue of the Serbs in relation to the authorities in Pristina, which is why it is necessary for Belgrade to come out with some suggestions.

Dacic told the opponents of Serbia's current policy toward Kosovo that he does not want Serbia to wage war ever again, and that therefore he is trying to achieve something through talks.

Asked whether Serbia's platform for Kosovo has been delivered to embassies of some countries, he said that Belgrade has to create its policy taking into account international factors.

"Do we want to adopt the platform, to carve it into a rock and say - this is the scripture and then be in a position from which we cannot go either forward or backward? We cannot resolve the issue of Kosovo on our own, and we have to resolve it with the help or opposition of some from the international community. This does not mean that anyone will dictate to us what is in our best interest," the prime minister concluded.