Foreign Minister of Serbia Ivica Dacic said tonight that he was ready to withdraw his signature from the Brussels agreement unless the Community/Association of Serb Municipalities in Kosovo was formed.
“I signed the Brussels agreement. We would never have signed it, if it didn’t have the main thing in it, the ZSO. If five years have passed since the signing and there is nothing, I ask why then the negotiations,” Dacic told TV Happy.
He said that he also heard a new version – that the ZSO will be part of the package of “legally binding agreement”.
“It’s a superb insolence …. What does this formulation mean? No one knows this. The interpretation that it should contain the independence of Kosovo is absolutely unacceptable to us. That is not part of the conditions under which we signed the Brussels Agreement then,” Dacic said.
According to him, the fact that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic shows a desire for compromise does not mean that it is our weakness.
“He clearly needs to say the EU what we want and how far we can go… Whoever can come here, the recognition of an independent Kosovo will not get from us. There is no Serb who would sign it,” Dacic said, noting that Serbia has a clear position and that it should be clearly presented to everyone.
Explaining what he meant when he said that Serbia would not perform the harakiri for the EU, Dacic said that he did not speak about himself, but about the “historical harakiri” of the Serbian people and the state, because, as he said, EU “they are only persuading”.
“In all the statements that go towards us, it is always said that Serbia needs to reach a legally binding agreement, i.e. to solve the problem of Kosovo before joining the EU. On the other hand, they do not say this to Kosovo. Why don’t they say to Pristina that they have to reach a historic agreement with Belgrade?” he said.
Dacic also asked why EU representatives do not go to Madrid “so they can say to them that they cannot use European funds, until they solve the problem of Catalonia.”
He also reminded that Slovenia and Croatia became members of the Union without resolving their border dispute, which they still have today.
Dacic said that Kosovo has not rounded up independence and will never become a member of the UN, and proposals that are heard from Pristina that Belgrade now has to tell Russia to let Kosovo into the UN, he has assed as “degrading and offensive”.
He said that Serbia should lead a reasonable policy and keep the cold head.
“I would be ashamed, after all that we have achieved, to say tomorrow to countries that have not recognized Kosovo’s independence – excuse us, but after all we have recognized Kosovo,” concluded the head of Serbian diplomacy.
