Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) criticized Brussels agreement

23/4/13 BELGRADE – The Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) believes that the initial agreement proposal between Belgrade and Pristina in Brussels constitutes ‘an indirect and silent but still practical’ recognition of the government system in Kosovo-Metohija which is independent of Serbia’s government structures, and warns that the price of Serbia’s potential EU membership would be the formal recognition of an independent Kosovo. There is no doubt that after such a prohibitive price for the fabled date of accession talks with an unknown number of new conditions and uncertain outcome, the price of EU accession itself would probably be embodied in the formal recognition of an independent Kosovo by Serbia and its obligation not to interrupt Kosovo’s path to UN membership, the Synod said in a release. The Synod recalled that the initial agreement proposal between Belgrade and Pristina was signed by Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic and the Kosovo prime minister, ‘an individual wanted by the Interpol’