Pristina's representatives "continue to pile on the (UN Security) Council falsehoods and lies and have lately engaged in outright propagandizing."
This is what Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic told the Council late on Thursday European time, as it convened to consider UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's latest report on the work of the UN mission, UNMIK, in Kosovo.
Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic on Wednesday met with Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Foreign Minister Anifah Aman - whose country presides over the UN SC - to discuss Thursday's SC meeting on Kosovo, as well as ways to improve Serbian-Malaysian relations.
Meetings with officials of countries presiding over the UN SC commonly take place ahead of regular sessions on Kosovo, Dacic noted after the meeting in New York.
Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić will on August 25 attend a UN Security Council session in New York.
The Council will meet to discuss a regular report on the work of the UN mission in Kosovo, UNMIK, filed by the UN secretary-general, and covering the period between April 16 and July 1.
Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic discussed on Monday with Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of UNMIK Zahir Tanin the preparations for the upcoming UN SC meeting where a three-monthly report on the mission's work in Kosovo-Metohija will be debated.
Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic will meet today, in separate meetings in Belgrade, the Head of the OSCE in Kosovo, Jean-Claude Schlumberger and UNMIK chief Zahir Tanin, said the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Dacic will meet first Schlumberger at 10 am, and then with Tanin at 11 am.
These meetings precede the meeting of the UN Security Council where will be submitted regular quarterly UNMIK report on the situation in Kosovo.
Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has said that removing the Serbian Constitution's preable has not been a topic of any of the talks in the EU.
The preamble defines Kosovo as an integral part of the Republic of Serbia.
Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic held a meeting with Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze in Belgrade on Thursday at which they noted a mutual commitment to territorial integrity as the basic principle of peaceful development of international relations.
Dacic thanked Ukraine for its active participation in Kfor, whose troops, with sincere support from the local Serb population, protect Serbian holy sites in Kosovo-Metohija.
The President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, expressed conviction that the debate on demarcation expected to be held on 3 August, will unify the government and opposition, which currently hold different positions with regards to the borderline between Kosovo and Montenegro.
He told the media after the meeting with the head of Kosovo’s Olympic Committee, Besim Hasani, that daily politics should be left aside and that state interests should be a priority.
Spain supports the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Serbia and it will never recognise Kosovo's independence, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel García-Margallo said on Wednesday.
This year marks the centenary of the diplomatic relations between Serbia and Spain, where Spain's support for Serbia's territorial integrity is a crucial pillar, Margallo said after a meeting with Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic.
At a meeting in Sofia, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić said that for Serbia the only acceptable engagement of the Council of Europe in Kosovo was the status-neutral, with respect of the UN Security Council resolution 1244.
Dačić said, addressing the participants of 126th ministerial meeting of the Council of Europe in Sofia that he expected the Council of Europe would continue to adhere to its consistent principled stance.