Dačić addresses party, warns about "separatism"

Ivica Dacic said in Leskovac on Tuesday that it was "in Serbia's state and national interest for the south of the country to maintain its population". This, the deputy PM and interior minister and leader of the Socialists (SPS) said, was important so as not to make room for ethnic Albanian separatists advocating the secession of southern Serbia. Dacic addresses party, warns about "separatism" "The strategic interest of expanding the Albanian factor in this area implies breaking off this part of southern Serbia as well and turning into some kind of Albanian territory," Dacic told a Socialist Party of Serbia electoral conference in the southern town. Dacic stressed that it was very important for strategically significant areas of the country to stay populated and for the state to maintain factories, roads and schools there. Dacic named two main priorities in Serbia: preserving unity to stop the propagation of separatism and the necessity of decentralization and regionalization. Ivica Dacic (FoNet, file)

Dačić addresses party, warns about "separatism"

"The strategic interest of expanding the Albanian factor in this area implies breaking off this part of southern Serbia as well and turning into some kind of Albanian territory," Dačić told a Socialist Party of Serbia electoral conference in the southern town.

Dačić stressed that it was very important for strategically significant areas of the country to stay populated and for the state to maintain factories, roads and schools there.

Dačić named two main priorities in Serbia: preserving unity to stop the propagation of separatism and the necessity of decentralization and regionalization.