Serbian Deputy PM and Interior Minister Ivica Dačić said today in Belgrade urged the EU not to set any new conditions for the country in its bid to join the organization.

"If anyone in the EU does not want Serbia to join, they should speak up. If the EU does not want us, we will have to live without it," Dačić said at a press conference after the meeting with Serbian police (MUP) officers who returned from their UN peacekeeping tour in Haiti.

Dačić pointed out that Serbia would not act against its own interests simply in order to join the EU, and added that, in case the recognition of Kosovo is set as a condition, Serbia should clearly say it does not accept that.

He said that, now that cooperation with the Hague was no longer a condition, "another prerequisite will very likely be found on Serbia's EU path".

"Anything can be imposed as a condition," Dačić concluded.