FM talks relations with US, and "binding deal" with Pristina

Dacic was speaking in Washington DC on Friday for VOA, after his coversation with US State Department official Wess Mitchell and ahead of his meeting with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

Dacic said that the meeting with Mitchell was "effectively an introduction into the meeting with Tillerson" with whom he met recently in Vienna.

Recalling that Mitchell was "a new man in the US administration who replaced Victoria Nuland," Dacic said he did not come "from that classical format of the State Department" and represented instead "a man of the new US administration."

"With all this in mind, we are trying to approach in the most serious way the important bearers of the US official state policy - President Trump, Vice President Pence, Tillerson - in order to see if there is understanding for Serbia's arguments," Dacic said.

Recalling that it will be one hundred years on July 28 since the Serbian flag was raised over the White House - which US President Woodrow Wilson did to honor the struggle and suffering of the Serb nation in the First World War - "and he was also a great friend of (Serb scientist) Mihajlo Pupin" - Dacic said that "afterwards, at this moment," relations between the two countries came to "a phase of total incompatibility."

"I would not even say 'incompatibility', but of big conflict, we even had the (NATO) bombing," said Dacic.

The minister added that he thought some changes were now taking place, "at least in the sense that there is willingness to listen to our arguments and our suggestions regarding how we think certain things can be solved, and what our common interest is."

And that, he continued, is security, stability, peace in the region.

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