Dacic: Northern Kosovo a vital national issue for Serbia

Ivica Dačić
Tanjug/Jadranka Ilić

Serbian Parliament Speaker Ivica Dacic said on Friday that northern Kosovo is a vital issue for Serbia, adding that Belgrade will not allow a pogrom against the Kosovo Serbs.

“To make things clear to everyone, the question of northern Kosovo is a vital national and state issue for Serbia. Every attempt to take over the north by force, for our people to suffer a pogrom, will not be allowed by Serbia,” he said in a live appearance on the pro-regime TV Pink.

He said that the agreement reached in Brussels to ease tensions in northern Kosovo showed that Serbian is serious about continuing the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue but that there are red lines in terms of unilateral action. “Our view from the start was that we do not accept unilateral action and that the ROSU (Kosovo police special unit) has to withdraw,” he said adding that the dialogue is the place to resolve those issues.