PM: Plan of implementation by end of week

BELGRADE Ivica Dacic stated on Monday that Belgrade is expected to prepare the plan of implementation of the Brussels agreement by the end of the week. It will include deadlines and actions that will be completed within a certain period of time, the prime minister told public broadcaster RTS. PM: Plan of implementation by end of week “We are speaking about general deadlines. Without the implementation plan, which among other matters covers the police, judiciary and certain deadlines, we cannot expect Germany to give its consent for setting the date of the negotiations,” Dacic said. He noted that a working group would be set up which will draw up the implementation plan, and underscored that Belgrade drafted and signed the agreement which states that the plan of implementation is necessary and constitutes an obligation. Nevertheless, the prime minister specified that this does not imply that all points in the agreement would be carried out by June 28 and it instead entails that a progress in the right direction should become visible by then. According to him, the activities also need to be agreed on which will be implemented in the vacuum period until the community of the Serb municipalities is set up, which is why the authorities called for the establishment of the team for preparations and adoption of the amnesty law in the Kosovo assembly in Pristina. Dacic added that he will meet once more with Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci in Brussels on Tuesday but he believes that it would be better if the talks continued on the expert level. “We have to go to Brussels on Tuesday and if this is not completed by the end of the week, we will not get the consent for the initiation of EU accession talks, which would be a bad turn of events,” the prime minister said. Dacic believes that the talks would be difficult because Pristina is not bound by deadlines and its team will certainly try to impose as many points as possible which had not been mentioned in the agreement, which Belgrade cannot accept. “It is in Serbia's interest to implement the points we agreed on and get the date of accession talks,” Dacic said. When asked whether some new conditions were mentioned during his stay in the U.S., Dacic said that such matters were not mentioned and that Serbia does not have to be forced to implement what it agreed to. (Tanjug, file) Tanjug

PM: Plan of implementation by end of week

“We are speaking about general deadlines. Without the implementation plan, which among other matters covers the police, judiciary and certain deadlines, we cannot expect Germany to give its consent for setting the date of the negotiations,” Dačić said.

He noted that a working group would be set up which will draw up the implementation plan, and underscored that Belgrade drafted and signed the agreement which states that the plan of implementation is necessary and constitutes an obligation.

Nevertheless, the prime minister specified that this does not imply that all points in the agreement would be carried out by June 28 and it instead entails that a progress in the right direction should become visible by then.

According to him, the activities also need to be agreed on which will be implemented in the vacuum period until the community of the Serb municipalities is set up, which is why the authorities called for the establishment of the team for preparations and adoption of the amnesty law in the Kosovo assembly in Priština.

Dačić added that he will meet once more with Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci in Brussels on Tuesday but he believes that it would be better if the talks continued on the expert level.

“We have to go to Brussels on Tuesday and if this is not completed by the end of the week, we will not get the consent for the initiation of EU accession talks, which would be a bad turn of events,” the prime minister said.

Dačić believes that the talks would be difficult because Pristina is not bound by deadlines and its team will certainly try to impose as many points as possible which had not been mentioned in the agreement, which Belgrade cannot accept.

“It is in Serbia's interest to implement the points we agreed on and get the date of accession talks,” Dačić said.

When asked whether some new conditions were mentioned during his stay in the U.S., Dačić said that such matters were not mentioned and that Serbia does not have to be forced to implement what it agreed to.