Sarcevic: Serbia has done everything to open Chapter 26

KRAGUJEVAC - Serbia has done everything - fully and flawlessly - to open Chapter 26 in its EU accession talks, with all demands of national minorities met not because of the chapter, but for the sake of lasting standards in the country, Serbian Minister of Education, Science and Technological Development Mladen Sarcevic said Wednesday.

"It is a purely political whim of a different kind - ask the other 27 EU member states why they have no objections. There is no veto from Bulgaria - I have met with the country's minister, we were together in Bosilegrad and agreed there is not the slightest problem there," Sarcevic told reporters in Kragujevac after Croatia vetoed the opening of the chapter, which deals with education and culture.

Sarcevic was visiting the University of Kragujevac.