Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said in New York that his country considers that international presence is still necessary in Kosovo, adding he urges further quarterly reporting by the UN Security Council on the situation in Kosovo.

It is very important for Serbia that the UNSC continuously monitors developments in Kosovo. We advocate keeping the institution of quarterly reporting, although some countries advocate reports twice a year, Dacic said after a UNSC session,

OSCE Chairman-in-Office and Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic stated on Tuesday that the position of Serbs in Kosovo is unacceptable and is far below the Council of Europe (CoE) standards in terms of respect for human rights.

He underscored that Serbia supports every CoE effort aimed at improvement of CoE standards in Kosovo to the benefit of all people living there which is in keeping with the legally binding international documents, primarily UNSC Resolution 1244.

Serbian Foreign Minister and First Deputy PM Ivica Dacic have asked "what would happen" if he said that "all Serbs will unite under the EU flag."

"I wonder what would happen if I said something of the sort," Dacic told reporters during a joint news conference with visiting Russian FM Sergei Lavrov , and added:

Brussels is preparing a new list of the requests for Serbia in regards to Kosovo and Metohija, but also in regards to the relation with Moscow and Republika Srpska. The list could be soon presented as a condition for opening the Chapter 31 on foreign and security policy, learned Vecernje Novosti.

BRDO -- Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic today "spoke briefly and shook hands" with Kosovo Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci, ahead of a conference in Slovenia.

The encounter occurred regardless of the controversy between Belgrade and Pristina caused by Thaci's intention to attend an NGO's conference in Belgrade.

It’s been two years since the signing of the Agreement for the Normalization of Relations between Kosovo and Serbia.
The accord was signed on April 19, 2013 in Brussels by the prime ministers of Kosovo and Serbia, Hashim Thaci and Ivica Dacic, with the brokerage of the EU head of for foreign affairs, Catherine Ashton. The text contains 15 points.

Foreign Ministers of Kosovo and Serbia, Hashim Thaci and Ivica Dacic, are among more than 40 other world officials taking part in the two-day Global Conference on Cyberspace beginning today in The Hague. The conference will be opened by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and will also be attended by EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland.

Freedom and security of the Internet are the main topics of the fourth Global Conference on Cyberspace (GCS), which begins today in The Hague.

Two-day event which aims to encourage practical cooperation between countries, businessmen and scientific institutions, harmonize international standards and norms of acceptable behaviour and explore ways to protect freedom and privacy on the Internet will bring together representatives of hundred countries and international organizations.

I do not have any information about the visit of Hashim Thaci to Belgrade and I have learned about it from the media, said Ivica Dacic, Serbian Foreign Minister and added that Serbia has not received any formal request for approval of such a visit.

Dacic told reporters in Belgrade that meeting, as media reports, at which should participate and Hashim Thaci, will not be organized by the state than the non-governmental sector. He also said that he as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia will not participate in it.

Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic on Wednesday said that Serbia insists that the conditions for the start of its EU accession negotiations "must be clarified."

"We are not saying we will be conducting a war with the European Union, but we need to make things clear. We are not powerful, but we cannot applaud either," the Serbian minister remarked during a news conference held in Belgrade with his Zambian counterpart.

Asked about his previous statement that Serbia does not accept new conditions in order to open first EU membership negotiations chapters, Dacic replied: