Nikolic said Ashton would represent the EU in those talks and Prime Minister Ivica Dacic would head the Serbian team, but added that he would not run from the responsibility if authorised to do so, Belgrade's electronic media reported.
Nikolic told Serbian correspondents in New York that Serbia's position on Kosovo would be prepared as soon as he returned to Belgrade, and that Ashton informed him that the EU did not nor would ever insist that Serbia recognise Kosovo's independence.
"We have come to the end of meeting the demands which we have seen led to Kosovo's independence and won't do another step in that direction, which I stressed at the (UN) General Assembly," Nikolic said.