Petkovic:Next round of dialogue to address concrete steps to establish Community

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Wednesday the next round of high-level dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina would address a Community of Serb Municipalities in Kosovo-Metohija and concrete steps to establish it.

"It has been agreed that the next round of dialogue should address the Community of Serb Municipalities and that we get into the most concrete steps, but not in the way Kurti wants, but in the way it was agreed in 2013 and 2015 - the monitoring committee should explain a draft statute of the Community of Serb Municipalities, after which a discussion on that would take place," Petkovic said in an appearance on the RTS.

He said the statute needed to contain "all provisions stated in the general principles from 2015."

Petkovic reiterated that the Community represented the key condition for...