Ivica Dacic, Serbian Foreign Minister (BETAPHOTO/MILAN OBRADOVIC)
Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on April 17 that he had no intention of going to Strasbourg on April 18 for the 20th anniversary of Serbia's membership in the Council of Europe if Kosovo would be admitted into the institution the next day.
He told a news conference after meeting with Gabonese Foreign Minister Yolande Nyonda that announcements were coming ten years since the Brussels Agreement that the CoE Committee of Ministers would open the procedure to admit Kosovo.
"Kosovo hasn't fulfilled its obligations from the Brussels Agreement in ten years and is to be rewarded for it and to have the procedure launched on that day to admit it into the Council of Europe. That is a message that Kosovo can do whatever it wants," Dacic said.
The Serbian minister said the CoE had never before admitted an entity that was not a state and that it should not be possible to discuss defending the integrity of Ukraine with no discussion of the integrity of Serbia.
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