The US is ready to organize the signing of a Belgrade-Pristina agreement modeled on the signing of the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt in 1978. Serbia's First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic told this to Prva TV in Belgrade on Friday.
Dacic added that everything that has been happening lately shows the solution will not be reached quickly.
Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said the idea on delineation between Serbs and Albanians, that might include and border correction, “has not been put aside,” BETA news agency reported.
He added this idea represents “the only concrete initiative”.
Speaking for Blic daily Sunday’s edition, Dacic stressed “the status quo is impossible condition,” and it would result with Serbs vanishing from Kosovo and Metohija, as well as taking over Serbian cultural and religious heritage sites in Kosmet.”
Lebanon and Serbia would advance cooperation not only in the area of politics, but also economy, tourism, education, security and fight against terrorism, Lebanese and Serbian foreign affairs ministers Jobran Bassil and Ivica Dacic said, Tanjug news agency reported.
It was also added that for Lebanon Kosovo is not only the issue of Serbia, but of the international law as well.
“The fact is that by such acts the international law is breached and you depend upon major powers, one, two or three, which destroys the international principles,” Dacic told journalists.
Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister, Ivica Dacic said taxes imposed on Serbian goods must be abolished, and Belgrade is not interested in how this will be achieved, Tanjug news agency reported.
He added, that “those who gave a birth to a political monster in Pristina, must control it.”
“Those who gave the birth to that political monster in Pristina, must resolve the problem and control their “child”. There should be no twisted games, either you will control it or not,” Dacic told journalists following the meeting with his Lebanese counterpart Jobran Bassil.
Commenting on Ramush Haradinaj's op-ed in the Washington Post, Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said the text was written by someone else because "pen is not his weapon."
The Kosovo prime minister wrote the article published in the US daily, where he presented a series of accusations against Serbia, and claimed that the Serbian President, with Russia's support, was offering Kosovo independence in exchange for a part of its territory.
Kosovo independence, respectively recognition or non-recognition of it, is not the main topic of the visit of the Egyptian Foreign Affairs Minister, Sameh Shoukry to Belgrade, Ivica Dacic told Tanjug news agency.
Relations between the two countries are the main topic of the visit, Dacic added.
Shoukry’s visit to Serbia has no relation to the eventual decision of Egypt to define its relation towards Kosovo, and according to Dacic, this relation, at the moment could be described “as frozen recognition of Kosovo.”
Ivica Dacic said on Monday he would not be surprised if Pristina had indeed banned members of the Serbian government from entering Kosovo and Metohija. The first deputy PM and foreign minister stressed that this would run contrary to all agreements reached in Brussels (during EU-mediated Belgrade-Pristina negotiations).
Dacic told reporters he would not be surprised by such a decision, given that imposing a 100 percent tax on goods (from central Serbia) was proof there was no rational and reasonable policy in Pristina now - " we have moved into the sphere of political insanity."
Statement by First Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia Ivica Dacic at the meeting of the Security Council of the United Nations which discussed the report of the Secretary General of the United Nations on the work of UNMIK.
Full statement can be read at: http://www.mfa.gov.rs/en/press-service/statements/18333-minister-dacic-at-the-un-security-council-meeting-devoted-to-the-work-of-unmik
Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic said in New York there is yet no agreement on the frequency of Security Council sessions on Kosovo, BETA news agency reported.
“We want the agreement on dynamics of the sessions to be reached, but if it is not reached, then sessions would depend upon the country chairing over the Security Council in that month,” Dacic told RTS, following the SC session on Kosovo yesterday.
Serbia has tried to constructively contribute to a solution for Kosovo and is ready to continue to talk with all interested parties in that spirit. First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic said this on November 15 in New York City, at a session of the UN Security Council dedicated to Kosovo.