PM "ready to take responsibility in negotiations"

Source: Beta

BELGRADE -- Ivica Dačić says he is "not shying away from his responsibility" when it comes to continued Kosovo dialogue, but that it was important to determine its goal.

Ivica Dačić (Beta, file)

Another important point, Dačić said, was to see whether there were "any new conditions".
He spoke a day after President Tomislav Nikolić told B92 that he would suggest the prime minister to head Belgrade's team in Kosovo negotiations.

"A decision on the continuation of the dialogue has not yet been defined," Dačić said, and added that it was also unknown who would take part in it, noting at the same time that it was "important to reach agreement on what we wish to achieve with this dialogue":

"Even in the election campaign I said that I would take the responsibility, well we won't be sending state clerks to talk to Catherine Ashton, will we. However, we must know what kind of talks we are conducting, with what goal and whether everybody (in the government) is in agreement on this."

The prime minister said that Serbia was in favor of peaceful resolution of problems, and that many of its politicians "took part in the dialogue with Priština since 1999".

"However - if we are talking about the dialogue here, while at the Dobrosin checkpoint shots are being fired at the police, those attacks are coming from the territory of Kosovo and Metohija where our investigative organs cannot cross, and nobody ever determined who committed them," he was quoted as saying.

Dačić, who also serves as interior minister, specified that the MUP outpost in Dobrosin came under fire early on Monday, and that there were no casualties in the attack that damaged two passenger cars.

Dobrosin is located in the municipality of Bujanovac, on the administrative line between Kosovo and Metohija and central Serbia.