Serbia's Prime Minister Ivica Dacic on Thursday assessed that if Kosovo authorities insisted on putting Kosovo's logo on ballots for the coming local elections, this could bring into question the participation of Kosovo Serbs in the vote.
He accused Pristina officials of attempting to bring down the Brussels principles of dialogue based on neutrality of status.
Dacic spoke to reporters in Serbia and announced that he had convened a meeting with the ambassadors of the "Five" (USA, Italy, Great Britain, France and Germany) and the European Union where he would advise them of the above, Belgrade electronic media reported.
"I did not notice that ballots for elections in Serbia say: Republic of Serbia. The way Kosovo is presented has been defined and serious processes are being implemented in Kosovo in an effort to realise the Brussels agreement and cheap tricks to introduce Kosovo's logo won't do", said Dacic.
Insisting that the elections in Kosovo have to be status neutral, he underscored that "some things are being sneaked in that are of life significance" and that "no-one can play with Serbia like that."
"If someone thinks that our weakness is that we are negotiating, then they are kidding themselves. Either the elections will be status neutral or we won't participate in them", he said.
Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga in early July called for local elections in Kosovo to be held on November 3, after an agreement between Belgrade and Pristina on the normalisation of relations had been reached in April with the mediation of the European Union.
Serbs constitute around ten per cent of the population of Kosovo and on the most part they boycotted the 2009 election. Belgrade now insists on a much greater participation in the elections even though Serb officials in northern Kosovo are opposed to such state policy from Belgrade.
