First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic expressed today, at a video session of the UN Security Council, the expectation that conditions for the continuation of Belgrade-Pristina dialogue will be created immediately after the pandemic has ended.
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Continuation of dialogue with Pristina as soon as conditions are met
Belgrade,
24 April 2020
In a Security Council video session dedicated to the regular UNMIK performance report, Dacic stressed the importance of holding this session because it is a strong message to the people of Kosovo-Metohija that they are not left alone in these difficult moments and that we care more about them than ever. aware of the fact that they lived in difficult conditions even before the outbreak of the epidemic.
He said Belgrade took decisive action to help Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija to combat the epidemic.
We delivered medical and protective equipment, sent doctors and medical workers, but we also expressed our readiness from the very beginning to cooperate fully with Albanians and work together with representatives of temporary institutions in Pristina to combat the epidemic, the Minister said.
He pointed out that both Serb and Albanian COVID-19 patients from Kosovo-Metohija are being treated in central Serbia and that Belgrade donated 1,000 coronavirus tests to the Public Health Institute in Pristina last week.
Dacic said that Serbia will continue to provide everyone with the necessary assistance and solidarity at this time, as human lives and the fight against coronavirus are now the most important.
Speaking about the resumption of Belgrade-Pristina dialogue after the epidemic wanes, he said that only one step of Pristina prevents us from doing that, and that is the abolition of tariffs and the so-called reciprocal measures adopted by Pristina, which totally deny and annul all that we have achieved in the Brussels dialogue since 2012 to date.
That is why I would like to remind you once again that Resolution 1244 is the only valid UN document that must be respected, and that the formation of the Community of Serb Municipalities is the responsibility of Pristina under the Brussels Agreement.
On this occasion, I would like to once again call for a return to dialogue and forgoing unilateral moves, Dacic said.
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Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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