Daciq: Serbia ready to continue dialogue with Kosovo

While in Rome, Dacic said that after the elections in Serbia on 21 June, Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq will talk with European officials on the issue.

“Since the new government (of Kosovo) abolished the so-called reciprocity measures, and prior to that taxes have been abolished, the conditions for continuing dialogue have been met”, Dacic told reporters in Rome.

“We are ready to continue dialogue. We want it to come to a sustainable solution, a compromise, but, at the moment, it's too early to talk about it, because there has been no long-term dialogue”, he added.

Dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, which has started since 2011 with the European Union's mediation, has ceased at the end of 2018, due to the 100 per cent tax imposed by the then-Kosovo Government on products imported from Serbia.

Serbia has conditioned the continuation of dialogue with the removal of tax and reciprocity measures.

The tax was removed earlier by the government of former Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti, who has subsequently imposed reciprocity measures on Serbia.

Even these measures are abolished 6 June by the new Kosovo prime minister, Avdullah Hoti.