Serbia urges EU nations that don’t recognize Kosovo to bar its entry to EU

Serbia urges the EU member countries that do not recognize the independence of Kosovo to prevent Pristina from submitting an application for European Union membership on December 15, Serbia’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Monday.

"We are working on this, to urge all EU member nations that have not recognized Kosovo to contest this issue from the point of view of status, that is [from the point of view] that there are no necessary conditions to discuss this," Dacic told the Tanjug news agency.

Earlier, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that on December 15, Pristina will officially apply for EU membership, thus violating the Washington Agreement. Vucic said he would send personal letters to the leaders of Greece, Spain, Cyprus, Romania and Slovakia, the countries that have not recognized Kosovo’s independence.