“Continuation of Belgrade-Pristina dialogue is important”
Delegation for Relations with South-East Europe Chairman Eduard Kukan has said that rejection of the Brussels agreement is not bad for Serbia.
Friday, 12.04.2013.
11:38
BELGRADE Delegation for Relations with South-East Europe Chairman Eduard Kukan has said that rejection of the Brussels agreement is not bad for Serbia. He qualified as important that the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue would continue, according to unofficial sources, perhaps as early as on Monday or Tuesday. “Continuation of Belgrade-Pristina dialogue is important” Kukan told Belgrade-based tabloid Kurir that the expectations of the eighth round of the Brussels talks on the key issue - powers of Serb municipalities in Kosovo - were great, but added that he would not consider a failure if agreement was not reached. He said this would not be a failure of either the Serbian government or the European diplomacy, and pointed out that it was important that the dialogue was not finished. “I believe it is better to reach an agreement that would be endurable and sustainable than some deal that would be made under the current pressure,” Kukan explained. He added that he had heard unofficially that the talks might continue on Monday or Tuesday. “The fact that Serbia rejected the offered agreement ahead of a decision on granting the country a date for the opening of EU accession talks is not bad and does not necessarily mean that all chances are ruined,” he said. “It is important that you defend your positions, but with arguments,” Kukan noted. He also said it would not be a tragedy if Serbia did not get the date in June. “The fulfillment of conditions should be the most important issue, not this. However, you should not give up,” Kukan stressed. The Serbian government decided on Monday to seek an urgent resumption of the EU-mediated dialogue with Pristina. Prime Minister Ivica Dacic said that the government could not accept the principles verbally presented to its negotiating team because they did not guarantee safety, survival and human rights protection to Serbs in Kosovo. The report of EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton on Serbia's fulfillment of the conditions for getting the date, whose content depends on the results of the dialogue on Kosovo, will be released on April 16. Ivica Dacic, Catherine Ashton and Hashim Thaci (Beta, file) Tanjug
“Continuation of Belgrade-Pristina dialogue is important”
Kukan told Belgrade-based tabloid Kurir that the expectations of the eighth round of the Brussels talks on the key issue - powers of Serb municipalities in Kosovo - were great, but added that he would not consider a failure if agreement was not reached.He said this would not be a failure of either the Serbian government or the European diplomacy, and pointed out that it was important that the dialogue was not finished.
“I believe it is better to reach an agreement that would be endurable and sustainable than some deal that would be made under the current pressure,” Kukan explained.
He added that he had heard unofficially that the talks might continue on Monday or Tuesday.
“The fact that Serbia rejected the offered agreement ahead of a decision on granting the country a date for the opening of EU accession talks is not bad and does not necessarily mean that all chances are ruined,” he said.
“It is important that you defend your positions, but with arguments,” Kukan noted.
He also said it would not be a tragedy if Serbia did not get the date in June.
“The fulfillment of conditions should be the most important issue, not this. However, you should not give up,” Kukan stressed.
The Serbian government decided on Monday to seek an urgent resumption of the EU-mediated dialogue with Priština.
Prime Minister Ivica Dačić said that the government could not accept the principles verbally presented to its negotiating team because they did not guarantee safety, survival and human rights protection to Serbs in Kosovo.
The report of EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton on Serbia's fulfillment of the conditions for getting the date, whose content depends on the results of the dialogue on Kosovo, will be released on April 16.
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