Dacic: UNSCR 1244 still valid, everyone must comply with it

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said on Monday UNSC Resolution 1244, adopted 25 years ago, was still current and valid and that everyone must comply with it.

Dacic noted that the resolution would never have been adopted had it not guaranteed the territorial integrity of the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia at the time of the signing of the Kumanovo Agreement, which ended the 1999 NATO aggression.

Just a few months after the adoption of the resolution, while insisting on respect for international law, Western countries secretly began "to work on promoting and creating independence for 'Kosovo', which former Serbian PM Zoran Djindjic spoke about, too," Dacic said.

"We believe the international legal order rests upon UNSC decisions - for us, the resolution is still current and valid and everyone must comply with it, even though there has been no respect for it for over 20 years. Even today, on the side of the West, there are only attempts to abolish the resolution and practically declare an independence of 'Kosovo', Dacic said.

He added that the so-called Kosovo's declaration of independence was a unilateral act that was not in line with international law or Serbia's constitutional order.

He called on the international community to respect its own documents, including UNSCR 1244.

"Otherwise, it is a big swindle. As you know, this is not the first time we are facing such swindles. The same was the case with the Brussels Agreement. Whatever they (the West) promised us, in the end it turned out they were lying to us," Dacic said.