Petkovic: Serb municipalities backbone of Brussels Agreement

BELGRADE - The director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Monday the establishment of a Community of Serb Municipalities was the backbone of the Brussels Agreement and that Pristina had rejected Belgrade's constructive proposal of a draft statute of the Community.

Speaking to Pink TV, Petkovic said Pristina's PM Albin Kurti had also rejected an EU proposal and then made a unilateral decision to ban the dinar in Kosovo-Metohija after seeing that everything was heading towards a final framework for the proposal.

"We made a good step forward when it comes to the Community of Serb Municipalities and the statute by (EU special envoy) Miroslav Lajcak. Pristina saw that, that things were heading towards a deal on a final statute getting increasingly close, and that the discussions, in fact, made sense and that our experts had found...