First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Ivica Dacic said today that the Serbian Interior Ministry and the EULEX mission in Kosovo-Metohija are not using all possibilities to improve their cooperation, although the two sides recently signed a Protocol on police cooperation.

Dacic said in an interview with the Danas daily newspaper that there is a lack of cooperation in the fight against organised crime, illegal migration, various forms of smuggling, terrorism, trade with narcotics and arms trafficking, which he recently told EU mediator in dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina Robert Cooper.

He recalled that on 13 July in Belgrade he met with Cooper and expressed the wish that cooperation with EULEX should be better.

Dacic said that he and Cooper talked about the need for calming down the situation resulting from a dismissal of the commander in the north of the province, as well as about the need to maintain status-neutral position of EULEX.

The Deputy Prime Minister also said that there is no specifically set period when implementation of the agreement between Belgrade and Pristina on the freedom of movement should begin.