President reacts to EU's stance on ZSO

Reacting to EU's stance on the formation of the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO) in Kosovo - after an EU spokesperson told Tanjug on Tuesday that this would be done "in accordance with Kosovo laws and objections of the Kosovo Constitutional Court - the president said, "let them show us where this is written."

Vucic also said he was "surprised by this statement."

"I want to them to show us where this is written in the Brussels agreement, I know the Brussels agreement by heart, you can find it on the websites of the government, the president, the Office (for Kosovo and Metohija), it does not say that anywhere," Vucic told RTS late on Tuesday.

He assessed that, after such statements, "it is unambiguously clear who is Serbia's friend, and who it cannot call by that name."

"The only thing that is good here is that when they say this publicly they are showing people in Serbia what negotiations in Brussels are like, how difficult it is, what one is facing," the president said.

He stressed that it was now important that Serbia preserves its "inner peace."

"It is up to us to be calm, composed, and send such messages, as well as to fight for our people," Vucic said.

Earlier in the day, asked by Tanjug whether the draft of the ZSO Statute was being worked on under the provisions of the Brussels agreement - which provides for greater powers for Kosovo Serbs - or according to the decision of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo - which reduces those powers to the level of an NGO - EU spokesperson Maja Kocijancic said the ZSO will be formed "in line with Kosovo law."

Reacting to this, the head of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric, asked how the court was...