Demarcation will be Serbia’s official proposal to resolve the Kosovo issue, Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Tuesday.

Dacic said that the exact demarcation line has not been defined yet even though the demarcation idea is in play.

The Kosovo Albanian side is keeping quiet about the proposal, he said, adding that the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, intended to normalize relations, is at a standstill at present, after the Kosovo government had raised import tariffs for Bosnian and Serbian products from 10 to 100 percent.

The European Union and the US had repeatedly called for the tariffs to be revoked, warning that all agreements reached in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue must be implemented.

Dacic said that Washington wants a compromise and a lasting solution for Kosovo.

“Washington is more interested in seeing the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue continue than Great Britain or Germany are,” Dacic said.

 Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008. Belgrade never recognised the decision, and officially still considers Kosovo a province of Serbia in spite of having no de facto authority there, with the exception of a Serb-populated enclave in the very north of Kosovo.

Kosovo’s is recognised today by 23 out of 28 EU member states, Croatia and Slovenia, and around half of 193 UN members.

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