Armed Albanian formations cannot enter North - Dacic

Dacic added, speaking on Monday, that this agreement that had been reached with NATO should be translated into a directive that everyone in the field should respect - "in order to avoid a situation that would trigger major problems in Kosovo and Metohija."

Reacting to a KFOR spokesperson saying that members of the Rosu unit can go to northern (mostly Serb) part of Kosovo without first obtaining permission, the Serbian minister said that KFOR's interpretation was that this this unit is not part of the armed, but of the police force - "but these are individual interpretations."

The head of the Serbian diplomacy believes that there should be "a practical way of characterizing all these forces."

"We never talked about whether Rosu, or an army, can enter the north without the consent of KFOR and the mayors of Serb municipalities - we always talked about armed formations of Albanians - so NATO would have to have a manual about what we agreed on, and forward it to the representatives in the field," Dacic said.

The minister also said that the US did not request a change in the (EU-mediated) format of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, and that there have been no official initiatives to this end so far.

"By that I don' t mean the daily statements about the expansion of the format coming from Pristina. That's an expression of dissatisfaction that they have toward (EU official) Federica Mogherini. On the other hand, the US are not asking to join the dialogue. A change in its format is not a topic that is being discussed at this moment," he said.

Dacic added that, if this change were to occur, Serbia would ask for Russia to be included too - and recalled that Russian officials have already said they would be willing...