Government response comes after Serbia last night openly sought the North

Serbia openly sought the north last night, but how the Kosovo government reacted.

Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has said Monday that the north of Mitrovica cannot remain under Pristina's sovereignty. Dacic has again chosen to issue provocative statements in Kosovo and raise tensions in northern Kosovo, where parallel structures operate with direction from Belgrade. Meanwhile, the Kosovo government says these are populist statements.

Dacic has made this position of the Serbian state public on the eve of the Paris meeting, where Kosovo and Serbia are expected to discuss the possibility of continuing talks.

Kosovo's “north cannot stand under Pristina's sovereignty and end. If the international community wants to close the Kosovo issue as a problem that generates instability, I believe this issue will be resolved”, Daciq has said in an interview for television O2.

He has said the problem for this formula lies, not in disagreement between the US and Russia, but between the US and its European partners.

Meanwhile, these Dacic statements are looking populist to Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj's political adviser, Halil Matosit.

Matoshi has told Express that the sovereignty of Kosovo institutions is extended to the entire territory of the country and that statements by the Serbian chief diplomat should be ignored.

Kosovo's “institutions have full sovereignty in the entire constitutional territory of the country. Populistic statements are for internal use and as such ignore”, Matosi said.