"Intensity of efforts" over Kosovo remains

FM Vuk Jeremic said on Monday that the country will not decrease the intensity of the diplomatic efforts in order to prevent new recognitions of Kosovo. Jeremic addressed MPs in parliament to tell them that "it is not easy to use diplomatic means in the defense of Serbia's constitutional order when you have very influential countries on the other side". "Intensity of efforts" over Kosovo remains "There is dramatic pressure in the world on those countries that have not recognized Kosovo. Their foreign ministers are suffering that pressure and we must talk to these people, while such conversations can only be conducted by the diplomacy chief or the president," he stressed. "Those MPs who claim that travels abroad are expensive and unnecessary are not right, and Serbia will certainly not lower the level of intensity of her diplomatic efforts to prevent new recognitions," Jeremic said. He also rejected opposition's criticism of the amended Law on Foreign Affairs, which gives the minister the right to distribute up to five percent of the overall jobs available without either a public or an internal competition. Jeremic said that "there is no country in the world" where a similar privilege is not enjoyed by its foreign minister, and reminded that his is the only ministry that has cut the number of employees by 200, "with the aim of professionalizing it". Jeremic in parliament today (Tanjug)

"Intensity of efforts" over Kosovo remains

"There is dramatic pressure in the world on those countries that have not recognized Kosovo. Their foreign ministers are suffering that pressure and we must talk to these people, while such conversations can only be conducted by the diplomacy chief or the president," he stressed.

"Those MPs who claim that travels abroad are expensive and unnecessary are not right, and Serbia will certainly not lower the level of intensity of her diplomatic efforts to prevent new recognitions," Jeremić said.

He also rejected opposition's criticism of the amended Law on Foreign Affairs, which gives the minister the right to distribute up to five percent of the overall jobs available without either a public or an internal competition.

Jeremić said that "there is no country in the world" where a similar privilege is not enjoyed by its foreign minister, and reminded that his is the only ministry that has cut the number of employees by 200, "with the aim of professionalizing it".