Serbia should reach a partition agreement with neighboring Kosovo in order to end a dispute that is hampering Belgrade's accession to the European Union, the Serbian defense minister Aleksandar Vulin  said, Reuters reported.

Speaking at a round table on Kosovo, Defence Minister Aleksandar Vulin did not specify which part of the country he believes should be partitioned, but similar calls made in the past have pointed to northern Kosovo.

Separated from the rest of the country by the river Ibar, northern Kosovo is home to 50,000 ethnic Serbs who oppose Pristina and still look to Belgrade as their government.

“Permanent and firm delimitation between Serbs and Albanians must be established in Kosovo,” Vulin said.