Beside  full implementation of the Brussels Agreement, Serbia will have to fulfill 11 German conditions, in order to open the first negotiation chapters with the European Union. Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic confirmed these speculations, which informal diplomatic sources are claiming for months.

“We are not clear which the conditions for continuation of integration are. In order to open the chapters, in addition to the implementation of the Brussels Agreement appeared 11 German conditions, among which some like removal of the Peace Park are not part of the Agreement.”

Ivica Dacic says it is "nothing new" that Serbia faces new and more difficult conditions every time it meets "a major requirement in moving closer to the EU."

But the Serbian foreign minister also said on Wednesday he was misquoted in the media who published his alleged statement that 'even if we recognized Kosovo, we would not be accepted to the EU'."

BELGRADE - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic and the new representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Belgrade Hans Friedrich Schodder discussed on Thursday the issue of displaced persons in Serbia and the implementation of the Regional Housing Program for refugees.

The two officials expressed their support for a further cooperation between Serbia and the UNHCR in resolving the issues of long-term displacement, statelessness and a large increase in asylum seekers, the Serbian Foreign Ministry said in a release.

Parliamentary group of Hashim Thaci’s PDK submitted to the Kosovo Assembly request for voting on Resolution on genocide which Serbs committed against Albanians during the 1999 conflict.

The Community/Association of Serbian municipalities is a form of association and cannot be a non-governmental organization, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said in Pristina on Wednesday.

The only thing that the Pristina government has always stressed as important is that the Serbs in Kosovo cannot be organized in a way similar to that of Republika Srpska (the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina), Dacic told reporters after the end of an informal ministerial conference on infrastructure projects in the Western Balkans in Pristina.

After the Western Balkans Conference held today in Pristina, Kosovo’s Principal Deputy Prime Minister Hashim Thaci told reporters that a political climate is being created in the region that will put an end to all conflicts. “The time has come to work on joint projects that will help our peoples and the new generations,” he said. Thaci also added: “It was a great honor for Kosovo and me to host ministers from the region, including Minister Dacic. We have spent a lot of time on the normalization of relations.

Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said today that ahead is a serious fight of Serbia over Kosovo's intentions to join some international organizations, since it is expected of the Kosovo authorities to apply for membership in the Council of Europe and UNESCO.

Dacic said at a session of the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee, when submitting a report on the work of his ministry in 2014, that it was important for Serbia to have an active approach to this problem and to do more to prevent it.

Ivica Dacic says he is satisfied with a briefing at the UN Security Council on Tuesday, considering that "both the OSCE and Serbia received support."

"I am satisfied, because this is an indication that the OSCE, and Serbia as the presiding country, have the right approach and have realized the role to be an objective and honest broker in the fulfillment of what constitutes an agreement," Dacic, Serbia's foreign minister and OSCE chairperson was quoted as saying, and adding: "

BELGRADE - Cooperation between the OSCE and the UN, situation in Ukraine and the OSCE's role in solving that crisis were the topics of a meeting between OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

The meeting, also attended by OSCE Secretary General Lambero Zannier, was held ahead of a briefing Dacic is scheduled to hold before the UN Security Council concerning cooperation between the UN and the OSCE, the Serbian Foreign Ministry has stated.

NEW YORK - Serbia advocates reinforcement of the UN role in the preservation of peace and security and respect of international law, Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Ivica Dacic stated in New York on Monday.