Serbian Foreign Minister, Ivica Dacic, said that Belgrade will have a hard time persuading UNESCO members not to vote for the admission of Kosovo to the organization at the forthcoming UNESCO Executive Council and General Assembly meetings.
By October 12, we will know whether the admission of Kosovo will be on the agenda of the Executive Council meeting, and by October 21, we will know if it will be supported by that body, Dacic said.
“A tough struggle is ahead of us as Western countries are exerting enormous pressure on the countries that have not recognized Kosovo not to vote against it (admission to UNESCO),” Dacic said in a statement for Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) on Wednesday.
Kosovo’s admission to UNESCO is a difficult issue facing the Serbian state and nation, because it is striking at the very essence of existence and identity of our nation. This land is where the Serbian church and statehood were born. If this is to become Kosovo’s cultural heritage, then it is an attack on the identity of the Serbian nation, said Dacic, and reiterated that Kosovo’s admission to UNESCO would be as absurd as admitting the Islamic State to that organization, as one cannot expect seeing those who have been destroying Serbian monuments until recently to start protecting them all of a sudden.
