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Serbian PM says headway made in contacts with Kosovo

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BELGRADE, Nov 8 (Hina) - Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic has said several steps forward were made at his meeting with Kosovo PM Hashim Thaci in Brussels on Wednesday and announced another meeting for early December.

Speaking to Serbian media after a working dinner organised for the two prime ministers by European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton, Dacic said the meeting was a "continuation of the talks in Belgrade" when Ashton and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Serbia.

Dacic said yesterday's talks did not address Kosovo's status but finding ways to implement what was already agreed.

He announced that he would meet with Thaci again before December 10 and a session of the European Council.

Dacic said it was agreed to start applying an earlier agreement on border crossings.

"I insisted that EULEX (the EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo) should have the final say when it comes to administrative crossings in north Kosovo," he said.

Dacic believes it will not be possible to implement the agreement on border crossings immediately but it would be in the next few months.

"We talked about several concrete issues and the fact that there should be no unilateral moves and that it is important to preserve peace. We agreed that it is important to continue to implement agreements that have been signed."

He recalled that Serbia publicly financed Serbs in Kosovo, saying he did not find this questionable, as the financing was "transparent, through the state budget," and there were no secret funds for that purpose.

"We are willing to talk about all issues except about the abolition of Serbia's institutions in Kosovo," Dacic said, adding that there could be talk of the issue of "parallelism of institutions" in order to find a solution acceptable to both sides.

It was agreed that Kosovo's police should set up a special unit to protect the Serbian cultural heritage which would comprise mainly Kosovo Serbs, he said.

Yesterday's Dacic-Thaci meeting was the second organised by Ashton in the last month. She separately met with each of them before the working dinner.

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