Dacic: EU Officials Condemn Dissolution of Management Team for Creating Community of Serb Municipalities

Ivica Dacic, New York, April 27 2023 (BETAPHOTO/Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on May 4 that EU officials had said that the dissolution of the Management Team tasked with presenting the first draft of the Community of Serb Municipalities' statute was not in the spirit of dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina.

Dacic, First Deputy Prime Minister and president of the Socialist Party of Serbia said during an appearance on Happy TV that it was important how the situation would unfold on the ground on May 28, when the Albanians were supposed to take over the four majority Serbia municipalities in north Kosovo after elections boycotted by the Serbs.

"This could be a trigger that could incite a spiral of incidents. The person who comes must enter Serbian offices and hang the Kosovo flag," Dacic said.

Dacic said he wanted to know whether Kosovo Premier Albin Kurti merely saying that he would create the Community was enough to be "rewarded" by the EU by canceling visas for Pristina and launching procedure for membership in the CoE. "He was rewarded for constructive behavior and 20 days have passed and now it turns out again that there is no constructive behavior. There is nowhere left to go, either Kurti will create [the Community] or not. If he does not that questions the implementation of the principles that we talked about," Dacic said.