Serbia's Prime Minister Ivica Dacic during his visit to Podgorica said that countries in the western Balkans should form a joint body similar to Scandinavian countries which could facilitate joint cooperation and positioning on foreign markets.
"We have to look for common interests. I don't believe in love between the former Yugoslav peoples because if it had ever really existed we wouldn't have warred", Dacic said at the end of a business forum in Becici, just outside Budva, Montenegro.
Dacic said that there was no point today in opting for some new Yugoslavia but that it was necessary for countries in the western Balkans to identify their common interests.
Serbia's prime minister believes that countries in the western Balkans should form some form of joint body, "some sort of Balkan council", similar to Scandinavian countries. That council, he explained, would facilitate mutual cooperation and better positioning on European and global markets.
In his opinion, multilateral relations still don't exist in the region but rather bilateral relations between individual countries.
He added that the western Balkans could not be divided by "Caesarean section", like in Medieval times whereby Slovenia and Croatia are part of the European Union while the other countries remain on the porch.
