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Serbia expects faster EU integration after agreeing to dialogue with Kosovo

Xinhua, February 13, 2015 Adjust font size:

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said at a press conference on Thursday that he expects that talks between Serbia and Kosovo will speed up his country's integration into the European Union (EU).

Vucic said on Thursday that the negotiations held in Brussels earlier this week were "hard and exhausting" but resulted in signing an agreement on the judiciary of Kosovo, a Serbian province that unilaterally proclaimed independence from Serbia in 2008.

He said that the progress in the dialogue with Kosovo should speed up Serbian progress towards EU membership and opening of the first chapters of the EU acquis.

"Everything else would come as a surprise and a disappointment," Vucic said at the conference held in the government building in Belgrade. Enditem