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Serbia's FM: EU not sure what it wants of Serbia

Author: spez
BELGRADE, April 13 (Hina) - Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said in an interview on Monday that due to numerous internal problems, the European Union (EU) wasn't sure what to do with itself or with Serbia, and cast aside any possibility of Brussels imposing sanctions against Belgrade because of the Serbian army's participation in a Victory Day parade in Moscow on May 9th.

Commenting his recent statement that if Serbia was to recognise Kosovo, it would still not be in the EU because there are always new conditions, he told Belgrade's Danas daily that the point of his message was that Serbia has had enough of being given various conditions or announcements of new conditions.

"(Serbia) clearly says, 'That's enough of that.' It says, 'Gentlemen, state what you want of Serbia openly so that we can just as openly say whether we will do what you ask or not," Dacic said, adding that Serbia would no longer accept the policy of "moving targets".

"We are in a position to accept or reject something that no-one has yet formally asked of us," Dacic told Danas, explaining that Serbia could recognise Kosovo convinced that that is a condition for accession to the EU, "only to have someone say, 'We're sorry but the condition was something else."

Dacic said that did not mean that the European Union does not want Serbia but that it is itself faced with many problems that it doesn't know how to resolve.

He believes that Belgrade won't have any greater problems with Brussels "than it has now" because of Serbia's participation at the Victory Day march in Moscow.

"We haven't boycotted any celebrations, from D-Day to the liberation of Auschwitz, and so we won't boycott the parade in Moscow... It would be difficult for anyone to justify any sanctions because someone has celebrated the fall of Fascism," he said commenting on statements by European officials that Brussels would not benevolently look at Serbia's participation in the Victory Day celebrations.

The chairman of the European Parliament's group for Serbia, Eduard Kukan, had said earlier that the participation of Serb soldiers in the Moscow military parade was in contrast to its EU integration ambitions.

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