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Dialogue precondition for regional stability

Belgrade/Vienna, 31 August 2018

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic said today that the unilaterally declared independence of Kosovo-Metohija is the biggest security challenge for our country, bearing in mind the discrimination and violence that the members of the Serbian community in the province are exposed to.

Speaking at the informal meeting of EU foreign ministers and candidate countries ("Gymnich") which is held in Vienna, Dacic reiterated that Serbia sees membership in the European Union as its main strategic position.

We believe that the Union also has a strategic commitment that Serbia and our region be a part of it, in order to make our continent safer and jointly act on the international scene, advocating effective multilateralism, Dacic underlined.

He said that the making of the Brussels Agreement was motivated by the desire to find opportunities for a systematic, institutional protection of the Serbian and other non-Albanian communities in the province, due to the lack of adequate institutional mechanisms and that this was supposed to be the task of the Community of Serb Municipalities, which has not been formed even after five years.

That is why the support of the international community is crucial for the success of the dialogue, Dacic said, voicing his expectation that all participants in the process will work on establishing trust, because without trust it will not be easy or at all possible to build a better future.