February 2 (SeeNews) - Serbia will not oppose Kosovo's membership in any international organisation, Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday.
"Our policy will be to preserve peace and stability by almost any means and at any cost, to refrain from, and avoid responding to, provocations unless people's lives and property are endangered," Vucic told Serbia's parliament, as quoted in a government press release.
The government in Belgrade does not recognise the independence of Kosovo, which broke away from Serbia in 2008.
In December, Kosovo submitted its application to join the European Union. It is also aspiring to join NATO.
Serbia will persist in the formation of a Commune of Serbian Municipalities in Kosovo which must be a legal and physical framework to ensure the safety of ethnic Serbs in the region, Vucic also said.
In December, ethnic Serbs in Kosovo blocked the roads to the border with Serbia with demands for the establishment of a Community of Serb Municipalities, as agreed by the governments of Kosovo and Serbia in 2013. Tensions eased after the release of a former policeman whose arrest had sparked the protests.