"Brussels agreement yet to be fully implemented"

Source: Tanjug

BELGRADE -- The U.S. supports Serbia's EU integration and reforms, a U.S. State Department official has said as he met with Serbian PM Ivica Dačić in Belgrade.

(Tanjug)

During his meeting with Director of the Office of South-Central European Affairs Jonathan Moore, Dačić noted that it was "in Serbia's interest is to improve its political dialogue and economic cooperation with the United States."
The two agreed the talks between Belgrade and Priština and the implementation of the Brussels agreement on the normalization of relations were having "a positive effect on the situation in the region."

The local elections in Kosovo were organized well, they said, according to a release from the government office for media relations.

"The Serbian government is willing to address all issues efficiently," Dačić said, adding that he hoped the accession talks with the EU would start as soon as possible.

The government has adopted all the necessary documents for the talks, he said.

Moore visited Priština and Tirana before Belgrade and after Brussels, where he attended the talks between Belgrade and Priština on December 5.

In an interview for Tanjug, Moore said that all provisions of the Brussels agreement must be implemented in other to normalize relations, and that he hoped Belgrade and Priština would find solutions by the end of the week for the remaining open issues.

"This is an especially big and important phase of the dialogue," he was quoted as saying, and noted that he was present in Brussels during the previous round of the talks, held on December 5.

He then stated that his country "supports Serbia, but has the same message for it like the EU," that all conditions of the agreement must be implemented.

"I am telling you openly, I was in Brussels and it is clear that all conditions have not yet been met," the U.S. official said, according to Tanjug, and added that "various topics" remain to be resolved.

"For example, both delegations must yet discuss the judiciary, what will happen with the court in northern Kosovo, that is one of the main topics," said Moore.