Dacic: Kosovo's EU Application – Marketing Stunt for Internal Needs

Ivica Dacic (BETAPHOTO/AMIR HAMZAGIC/DS)

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic stated on Nov. 14 that Kosovo's application for membership in the European Union was a marketing stunt for internal needs and that there was no consensus in the EU for accepting that application.

Dacic told reporters that the EU did not have a unified stance regarding the status of Kosovo and that no country had ever been admitted under such conditions. He added that the move was also not good in the situation in which all agreements are being disregarded. "For us, it is also impossible for anyone to accept it in conditions when the behavior of (Kosovo Premier Albin) Kurti is one of the principle destabilizing factors in the region," he said at the news conference after the meeting with Portuguese Foreign Minister João Gomes Cravinho.

Commenting on the statement of U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Gabriel Escobar about the U.S. being "categorically against the possibility of Serbian forces' returning to Kosovo's territory," Dacic said that such statements were not good. He added that it was not good when someone says which resolutions should and which should not be implemented.