President: We'll try to get Priština to reverse ban

Tomislav Nikolić says Belgrade would work with the EU to get Priština to change its decisions to ban Serbian officials from visiting Kosovo.

Izvor: Tanjug

Thursday, 03.10.2013.

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STRASBOURG Tomislav Nikolic says Belgrade would work with the EU to get Pristina to change its decisions to ban Serbian officials from visiting Kosovo. The ban applies during the election campaign for the November 3 local elections, it was announced in Pristina on Wednesday. President: We'll try to get Pristina to reverse ban Nikolic, who is currently in Strasbourg, added that if the decision were to stay, Serbia would "rethink its participation in the talks." "Belgrade will work with the EU to try and get Pristina's institutions to change this decisions, and if it is not changed, we will of course sit down to discuss whether we should continue to be a part of something that the administration in Pristina would implement completely on its own," he told reporters after a meeting with President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Jean-Claude Mignon. With this decision, Pristina has made the coming elections irregular, Nikolic noted, wondering how it would be possible to hold an election without a campaign running up to it. "That is not good. We believed in different relations between Belgrade and Pristina, ones of trust, and we supposed the elections would be entirely democratic and according to regulations. This presents the issue of the elections' regularity, along with all the objections that I have presented to the PACE president," Nikolic stressed. (Tanjug, file) Tanjug

President: We'll try to get Priština to reverse ban

Nikolić, who is currently in Strasbourg, added that if the decision were to stay, Serbia would "rethink its participation in the talks."

"Belgrade will work with the EU to try and get Priština's institutions to change this decisions, and if it is not changed, we will of course sit down to discuss whether we should continue to be a part of something that the administration in Priština would implement completely on its own," he told reporters after a meeting with President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Jean-Claude Mignon.

With this decision, Priština has made the coming elections irregular, Nikolić noted, wondering how it would be possible to hold an election without a campaign running up to it.

"That is not good. We believed in different relations between Belgrade and Priština, ones of trust, and we supposed the elections would be entirely democratic and according to regulations. This presents the issue of the elections' regularity, along with all the objections that I have presented to the PACE president," Nikolić stressed.

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