BELGRADE: In a bid to normalize relations with breakaway Kosovo, the Serbian government has reportedly approved an agreement, spokesman Milivoje Mihajlovic said on Monday, adding that the government approved the deal unanimously and ordered ministries to implement it.
The EU-brokered deal, that has triggered outrage among Serb nationalists, could end years of tensions and put the Balkan rivals on a path to European Union membership.
The prime ministers of Serbia and Kosovo reached a tentative EU-brokered deal on Friday that would give Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian leadership authority over rebel Kosovo Serbs. In return, the minority Serbs would get wide autonomy within Kosovo.
Kosovo, considered the medieval cradle of the Serbian state, declared independence in 2008.
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