Deputy PM: Status issue after technical talks

Deputy PM Ivica Dacic believes that the negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina will not bring a lasting solution to the situation in Kosovo. He also believes that after current technical negotiations, a model should be found to open issues about a definite political resolution of Kosovo's status. Deputy PM: Status issue after technical talks Dacic told daily Press that until a solution was found to the political status of Kosovo, it would remain the “cancer of the entire international community” as well as a justification for pressure on Serbia. “The fact that a part of the international community is unwilling to talk about it and thinks that the status issue is over is wrong,” he said. “At this point, the most important thing is to create unity and bring closer the positions of state leadership and Serbs in Kosovo,” the deputy PM was quoted as saying. He recalled that the Serbs had paid a high price of disunity in the past. “Since we lost wars in the past 20 years, it is time now to win in peace,” he stressed. The deputy prime minister reiterated that his recent statement that the authorities must never say that they would not go to war over Kosovo did not mean that he called for war. Dacic believes that Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci is the main cause of the problem in Kosovo rather than KFOR and EULEX, that he is the one who threatens with violent intervention and that, if he launches an armed attack Serbs, an avalanche of events would ensue. Ivica Dacic

Deputy PM: Status issue after technical talks

Dačić told daily Press that until a solution was found to the political status of Kosovo, it would remain the “cancer of the entire international community” as well as a justification for pressure on Serbia.

“The fact that a part of the international community is unwilling to talk about it and thinks that the status issue is over is wrong,” he said.

“At this point, the most important thing is to create unity and bring closer the positions of state leadership and Serbs in Kosovo,” the deputy PM was quoted as saying.

He recalled that the Serbs had paid a high price of disunity in the past.

“Since we lost wars in the past 20 years, it is time now to win in peace,” he stressed.

The deputy prime minister reiterated that his recent statement that the authorities must never say that they would not go to war over Kosovo did not mean that he called for war.

Dačić believes that Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci is the main cause of the problem in Kosovo rather than KFOR and EULEX, that he is the one who threatens with violent intervention and that, if he launches an armed attack Serbs, an avalanche of events would ensue.