PM Dačić: Footnote, asterisk "lost battle"

Minister Ivica Dačić has said on Monday that <a href="http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2012&mm=09&dd=03&nav_id=82049" class="text-link" target= "_blank">the instruction adopted by the Serbian government</a> was "not a concession to Priština".

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Monday, 03.09.2012.

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BELGRADE Minister Ivica Dacic has said on Monday that the instruction adopted by the Serbian government was "not a concession to Pristina". The decision unblocks Serbia's participation in regional meeting in which representatives of the Kosovo Albanian authorities from Pristina also takes part, and according to the government, ensures asymmetrical representation of the interim institutions in Kosovo. PM Dacic: Footnote, asterisk "lost battle" “By failing to attend these meetings, Serbia does not achieve anything. In the previous government, we sacrificed for an asterisk and the footnote, and in other agreement, we nearly introduced a customs office. We should make no useless sacrifices for the battles already lost, and an asterisk and the footnote are lost battles,” Dacic told B92. He added that the decision had been made by a unanimous vote of his cabinet. This decision did not introduce anything new, and Serbia will stick to the stand that Kosovo must be represented asymmetrically, Dacic said. “The government insists that Kosovo must be represented in an asymmetrical way- that is defined by an asterisk. The footnote is in the documents. If that is not respected and if there are certain state insignia of Kosovo, Serbia will not take part in such meetings,” Dacic said. Serbia has much more important problems related to Kosovo than whether the footnote is on the nameplate or in the documents, so it will be wrong to miss the meetings, if the footnote is not on the nameplate, he said. This is not the dispute over what has been agreed by the previous government, as the Serbian government will implement all the agreements reached so far, the prime minister stressed. (file) B92 Tanjug

PM Dačić: Footnote, asterisk "lost battle"

“By failing to attend these meetings, Serbia does not achieve anything. In the previous government, we sacrificed for an asterisk and the footnote, and in other agreement, we nearly introduced a customs office. We should make no useless sacrifices for the battles already lost, and an asterisk and the footnote are lost battles,” Dačić told B92.

He added that the decision had been made by a unanimous vote of his cabinet.

This decision did not introduce anything new, and Serbia will stick to the stand that Kosovo must be represented asymmetrically, Dačić said.

“The government insists that Kosovo must be represented in an asymmetrical way- that is defined by an asterisk. The footnote is in the documents. If that is not respected and if there are certain state insignia of Kosovo, Serbia will not take part in such meetings,” Dačić said.

Serbia has much more important problems related to Kosovo than whether the footnote is on the nameplate or in the documents, so it will be wrong to miss the meetings, if the footnote is not on the nameplate, he said.

This is not the dispute over what has been agreed by the previous government, as the Serbian government will implement all the agreements reached so far, the prime minister stressed.

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