Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said on Monday that no one can say precisely whether Serbia will become a member of the EU by 2025, B92 reports. 2025 was in the past mentioned by European Commission (EC) President Jean-Claude Juncker, but only as a tentative date.

Dacic said that Serbia will do everything in its power, administratively and politically in terms of implementing reforms, to be ready for membership adding that it will depend on the EU itself.

The crossing point of Morina is located at the border between Serbia and Albania, Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said commenting on the statement of Kosovo President Hashim Thaci that border point Morina “unjustly divides Kosovo and Albania,” RTS reported.

“Serbia within these borders is a member of the United Nations. I do not know how Thaci intends to change something the UN has recognized, without asking Belgrade for that,” Dacic told Vecernje Novosti daily.

Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic has told public broadcaster RTS that Serbia is "a small, but not a stupid country." He added that while Belgrade talks about compromise and dialogue, Pristina and Tirana are looking for ways to create ‘Greater Albania’ - an expansionist nationalist project at the expense of Albanians' neighbors - and do it under the table.

Dacic told RTS that a meeting between Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama on Wednesday in Tirana about "national unification" deserves a strong response.

The meeting of the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and Hashim Thaci in Tirana represents a pinnacle of insolence by the Albanian politicians, Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said last night.

Dacic’s statement came as a reaction to the topics of the meeting that included national unification of Albanians, abolishing the borders between Albania and Kosovo, as well as merging three southern Serbia’s municipalities with Kosovo.

Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic does not expect significant progress in resolving the Kosovo issue at the Paris summit that will be held on July 1. The meeting will be organized by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron.

Dacic expects pressure on Serbia to continue, but says his country has become accustomed to pressure, and that "nothing will come out that" - when it comes to recognizing Kosovo - its southern province - as independent.

Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said North Macedonia recognized unilaterally declared independence of Kosovo in order to get closer to the West, adding the argumentation of newly elected Macedonian President Stevo Pendarovski who said it was done because of Albanians living in the country “does not stand.”

After Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj dismissed Deputy Minister of Justice Vesna Mikic, and Minister of Administration and Local Government Ivan Todosijevic because – as it was interpreted in Pristina – they “insulted the Racak victims“ and referred to the 1999 bombing of the-then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as “NATO aggression,“ Kosovo Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli decided to declare anyone who “denies war crimes in Kosovo persona non grata in Kosovo,“ KoSSev portal reports.

Serbian Foreign Affairs Minster Ivica Dacic said he doesn't believe an initiative to establish a court for crimes allegedly committed by Serbs in Kosovo will receive international support.

Dacic added that Pristina's announcements of the initiative to form such a tribunal is viewed in light of the attempts to find a balance with the work of a specialist court dealing with the KLA crimes.

The KLA is a former armed formation of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, considered by Serbia to be a terrorist organization.

Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic has warned that in the two months after the summit in Berlin, pressure on Serbia will be fiercer than ever before.

"The Berlin summit did not bring a solution, but a step has been made, given that Germany and France insist on the unblocking of the dialogue and the resumption of talks between Belgrade and Pristina," Dacic said in op-ed published by Srpski Telegraf.

Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister and First Deputy PM Ivica Dacic said on Tuesday there can be no agreement with Pristina without Belgrade's consent. And Serbia will protect the interests of the people and the state, he told Prva TV a day after the meeting on Kosovo in Berlin, called by Germany and France.

"They can threaten us with anything, they can threaten us with whether or not we will join the EU, (but) there is the national, state interest. Just as our European path is important, it is important for us to protect the interests of the people and the state," Dacic underlined.