Dacic: Escobar's statement not good

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said on Wednesday he did not know why anyone would be against UN SC Resolution 1244 and noted that statements about which UN resolutions could and should be respected and which could not and should not were especially not good because they led to selectivity and double standards.

Dacic was commenting on a statement by US special Western Balkans envoy Gabriel Escobar, who has said the US categorically opposed a return of Serbian security forces to the north of Kosovo-Metohija.

Responding to questions from reporters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dacic said Serbia firmly stood by international commitments it had undertaken or had been imposed upon, and noted that UN SC Resolution 1244 allowed a return of Serbian forces to Kosovo-Metohija.

"We think the situation must be reviewed in an objective manner. Whatever anyone's individual political opinion may be, it should be no obstacle to this being discussed in a serious manner within the UN system, so such statements are definitely not good, neither his (Escobar's) nor (German FM Annalena) Baerbock's," Dacic said.