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Western Balkan peoples deserve a place in EU since long time ago

Belgrade, 28 November 2023

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic stated today that the European Union (EU) should revitalize its enlargement policy and underlined that the countries of the Western Balkans belong in the EU.

Opening the 23rd Belgrade Economic Forum, Dacic recalled that it was the enlargement policy that turned the EU into an important factor on the international stage.

The EU is present in our region, but we believe that it is time to revitalize the enlargement policy. With the Western Balkans, the EU will be even stronger. We do not want another 20 years to pass, we want our European story to become a reality, Dacic said.

He pointed out that the existence of double standards is not acceptable for Serbia, which is why it offers principled and sincere support to Ukraine, its territorial integrity and sovereignty.

Dacic added that a series of moves and provocations, aimed directly against the life and survival of the Serb and non-Albanian communities in Kosovo and Metohija, especially in its northern part, led to a great distrust of Belgrade towards Pristina.

From the beginning of 2021 until today, as many as 446 ethnically motivated attacks on Serbs in the province have been recorded, whereby the return to Kosovo and Metohija is still not possible for more than 200,000 internally displaced persons. It is even more worrying that in the past year alone, as many as 13 percent of Serbs have left Kosovo and Metohija due to constant harassment and pressure from the Pristina regime, said Dacic.

He, therefore, urged the international community to ensure security for the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, as the most important condition for the continuation of the dialogue.