Ivica Dacic (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)
Ivica Dacic, speaker of the Serbian parliament, said in response to announcements that Belgrade may receive an informal document penned by Washington and Brussels demanding Serbia recognize Kosovo as independent that there was "no need for anyone to waste time with such things."
"They needn't come to (Serbian President) Aleksandar Vucic with that paper," Dacic told Prva TV.
He said international circumstances had changed, explaining that Pristina "can't get into any international organization anywhere anymore."
"When Vucic and I had just tackled the issue, most states in the world had recognized Kosovo. Today, there are more nations in the U.N. General Assembly that don't recognize Kosovo," Dacic said.
Media outlets reported earlier that Brussels and Washington were coordinating a non-paper that would ask the Serbian leadership to pledge to recognize Kosovo, and also to re-examine its relationships to Russia and China.
According to the Feb. 25 issue of the Vecernje Novosti daily, foreshadowing this joint design will be imminent visits to Serbia by Miroslav Lajcak, mediator in the Belgrade-Pristina dialog, and Matthew Palmer, deputy assistant secretary for European and Eurasian affairs at the U.S. Department of State.
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