Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister, Ivica Dacic spoke in Palermo with his Italian counterpart about attempts to change the format of the UN Security Council sessions on Kosovo, Tanjug news agency reported.

Ivica Dacic and Angelino Alfano spoke on the margins of the OSCE Mediterranean Conference on the relations between the two countries and international organizations, in particular about the UN Security Council, which will be chaired by Italy next month.

Dacic pointed out that this topic is important to Serbia because an unprincipled attempt is under way to change the format of the Security Council sessions on Kosovo.

For Serbia, Dacic pointed out, it is very important that all problems existing in Kosovo and Metohia, while there are Resolution 1244 and the UN Mission in Kosovo, to be discussed regularly and as foreseen by the Resolution at the Security Council sessions.

"Some western countries are trying to change the format of holding the Security Council's sessions, either in a way to close them, which means to only discuss in closed sessions within the UN Security Council or that they take place less frequently and not every three months. That is why, it is very important to us to have an understanding of Italy, as the chairman," Dacic told Tanjug.

In addition to Alfano, Dacic also spoke with foreign ministers of Moldova, Malta and San Marino in Palermo.

Moldova, he added, did not recognize Kosovo's independence and would continue with such a policy in the upcoming period, Tanjug news agency reported.

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