Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic and his Romanian counterpart Teodor Meleșcanu opened on Tuesday in Timisoara the conference "Security Challenges in the Balkans", Serbian media reported.
Dacic said in connection to the insistence to reach the solution within the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina but which would not affect others, that one forgets that solutions were made which destroyed the territorial integrity of Serbia.
Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic assessed the event on the Gazivode lake as a provocation that represents continuation of everything that took place over the last couple of months, Serbian media reported on Sunday.
Commenting on Kosovo President Hashim Thaci visit to Gazivode lake, escorted by Kosovo special police members, Dacic told Prva TV, “he does not believe that Thaci had tourism desire.”
Dacic added “that such situation destroys hardly achieved stability.”
Entire floor at Scheveningen prison is getting empty, and it is about at least 12 prison cells, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said, adding these cells would be used for the needs of the Special Court for KLA crimes, Serbian media report.
“This is an exclusive news from Scheveningen, it is checked 100 percent. It means the Court starts working and the first arrests are expected,” Dacic told Prva TV.
Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said he is interested the most to talk with the countries that have recognized unilaterally declared Kosovo independence and to re-examine their decisions, RTS reports today.
“I am very pleased with how these talks are unfolding,” Dacic noted, adding he has said to the representatives of certain countries, having this in mind, soon Pristina and Tirana would be the only ones that recognize Kosovo.
Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic met with OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger on the margins of the annual UN General Assembly session in New York on Tuesday.
A foreign ministry press release said they discussed preparations for the coming OSCE ministerial meeting in Milano.
It added that Dacic voiced gratitude for OSCE support and the intensive dialogue the organization’s mission in Belgrade has with Serbian institutions while Greminger expressed full support to the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue to find a viable solution through political means.
First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic stated in New York that reaching a political solution to the Kosovo and Metohija issue is Serbian national priority, RTS reports today.
“By defending its sovereignty and territorial integrity, Serbia defends the international law, UN Charter, preservation of international peace and security, but also its national and historic identity, Dacic said in a Peace Summit, organized in honour of the centenary of the birth of Nelson Mandela, prior to the 73 session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic met on Friday in Banja Luka with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Dacic and Lavrov assessed on this occasion that the level of trust and high dynamics of Russian-Serbian contacts show that relations between the two countries are continuously and productively evolving, the Serbian government has announced.
The two ministers agreed that the relations between Moscow and Belgrade are progressing in each field, assessing that mutual relations have reached a very high level of strategic partnership.
Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said a solution for Kosovo and Metohija is not on the table and it should be patiently looked for, FoNet news agency reported,
Dacic made these remarks in a conference “Western Balkan Security Challanges and Serbia” organized by the Centre for Foreign Policy in Belgrade.
“An idea on delineation that was presented is an option Aleksandar Vucic publicly mentioned and it should yet be a topic of discussion, since the talks did not move ahead in the sense of something concrete, but ideas and options were presented,” Dacic noted.
“Serbia cannot accept unilaterally declared independence of Kosovo and it is good that president of provisional Kosovo institutions Hashim Thaci knows that, Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister, Ivica Dacic told Tanjug news agency.
“Serbia will not recognize Kosovo, and then continue talks. That would certainly not happen,” Dacic added, responding to the question if Serbia, as Thaci claims, would first recognize Kosovo and then talk about delineation.
"We will continue working on persuading our friends and partners to support the result of the dialogue between Belgrade and Priština, because this will be the only compromising and viable solution. Constructive aid is always welcome, but obstructions are not."
Diplomacy & Commerce talked with Ivica Dačić, Minister of Foreign Affairs and First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia, about possible outcomes of current negotiations on the status of Kosovo, the process of EU integrations and relations in the region.