"A positive decision on Serbia's candidacy could have led the Balkans into a calmer year and resulted in more attention being devoted to European and less to Balkan problems in the countries of the region," Simic said.
"Pozitivna odluka o kandidaturi Srbije mogla je uvesti Balkan u mirniju godinu i dovesti do toga da se u zemljama regije više pozornosti posvećuje europskim, a manje balkanskim problemima", rekao je Simić.