Dacic: No recognition or UN admission of so-called Kosovo

BELGRADE - Serbia's FM Ivica Dacic said in the parliament on Monday the Serbian state leadership's policy on Kosovo-Metohija was clear and that there would be no recognition or UN admission of the so-called Kosovo.

"I would like to refute any claim the current Serbian leadership has undertaken anything that is below national and state interests. Our policy is clear and firm, which means that there is no recognition of Kosovo as independent or UN admission, because that would mean they are recognised as a state," Dacic said in response to MPs.

He said he had reiterated that due to various manipulations and interpretations.

He noted that Serbia would be implementing only what was in line with its state policy.

"I also personally witnessed everything that was going on in 2012. That is when the talks and the dialogue were moved to Brussels. The Brussels Agreement was signed in good faith to enable the Serbs to have their own institutions in Kosovo-Metohija... It is thanks to the Brussels Agreement that Serbia's EU membership talks were opened," Dacic said.

He said 28 countries had derecognised the so-called Kosovo and that it now had fewer than 84 votes in the UN compared to around 110 a decade ago.