Office for Kosovo and Metohija
Government of the Republic of Serbia

Agreements reached in technical Kosovo talks

Chairman of the National Assembly's Committee on Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan Drecun stated that the team of PM Aleksandar Vučić, led by Marko Đurić has achieved a great diplomatic victory in Brussels.

"According to my information, the Pristina delegation behaved inappropriately and made a series of insults and even open threats at the Serbian delegation, in an attempt to force them to give up on some solutions, which would have been to the detriment of our interests," Drecun told the state broadcaster RTS.

The Serbian delegation, according to the chair of the National Assembly's Committee on Kosovo and Metohija, received the EU's support which resulted in a big diplomatic victory. Drecun said that he expected from the Belgrade delegation to persistently defend the defense interests of the Serbian people and achieve a status-neutral solution, and that this has been done.

"I congratulate the team of the Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić led by Marko Đurić, because I believe that we have achieved a model how to continue negotiations with Pristina in the future," said Drecun. Asked whether these agreements would now be implemented on the ground, Drecun said that they would because Serbia's firm position is clear, and Priština has started being under great pressure from Brussels and Washington since it imposes artificial obstacles."

Drecun added that already tomorrow, when the visit of to Kosovo and Metohija by the Director the Director of Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Đurić is planned, would be demonstrated if the agreed is being implemented, and as soon as on Monday whether the agreement on the passage of trucks is being implemented."

"In the coming period Pristina would try to neutralize the adverse effect and come up with a proposal of their solutions. It remains to be seen how committed they would prove to be," said Drecun.

Speaking about the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO), he said that Pristina can no longer find reasons not to form it, and that the Serb people in Kosovo "recognize it is the best solution to build a future without hatred and violence."

"All that remains is for Albanians, as the majority community in Kosovo, to recognize its significance," concluded Drecun.

In Brussels, Belgrade and Priština delegations have reached arrangement on ID cards, the lifting of the holdup on hazardous cargo transport and of the ban on official visits, as well as that the parliamentary elections in Kosovo would be held according to the same model applied in 2014 with the OSCE facilitation.