Dacic: West wants to push Pristina into international organisations

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic said on Monday Serbia was under great pressure from Western countries, which he noted were trying to push the so-called Kosovo into international organisations in any possible way.

When your country is under such pressure, you are "under immediate threat and cannot find words to describe those who are conducting an anti-Serb policy other than say that they are criminals, villains and liars," Dacic said on Pink TV.

"The situation our country is in is very serious... It is about continuing a policy of pushing 'Kosovo' into international organisations so that it can use various mechanisms international organisations have, as well as to potentially file a lawsuit against us," he said.

Commenting on announcements Pristina would sue Serbia for war crimes, Dacic said Pristina's PM Albin Kurti was not competent to talk about that as he was in prison at the time.

"The 'Kosovo Liberation Army' was a terrorist organisation until it was taken off the list to support its demands for independence of Kosovo. It seems that everyone has the right to defend their territorial integrity and that only Serbia cannot defend the part of our country where our country was born," Dacic noted.

He said the announced April 27 "Srebrenica genocide" resolution was a disgraceful decision given all the historical facts.

The West is forgetting that, in 1999, Serbia was targeted by an aggression that no one has been held responsible for and that was declared a "humanitarian intervention" even though it killed civilians, he explained.

"Western countries say there is no need to return to the past, and the Srebrenica issue, which happened before the NATO aggression, is not a return to the past?" he asked.