Dacic: Brussels Agreement is Belgrade's greatest achievement after Resolution 1244

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said today that the Brussels Agreement was the greatest achievement of Belgrade in political terms since 1999 and Resolution 1244 and that it was something tangible that Serbia had gained for Serbs in Kosovo, RTV reported.

"That is why Pristina avoids it. If it were something that had no value, they would have applied it a million times already," Dacic said in a guest appearance on Prva TV on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the signing of the agreement, referring to the Community of Serb Municipalities, which is the cornerstone of the Brussels Agreement.

As he reminded, Serbia has been exposed to the international community's hypocrisy for all these ten years, Tanjug reported.

Therefore, according to Dacic, it is essential for Serbia to fight for the CSM to take shape, as provided for by the Brussels Agreement.

According to the minister, talks at the highest level scheduled for May 2 will be difficult.

"Pristina will try to avoid all of that," Dacic said, who was prime minister at the time of the signing of the Brussels Agreement on April 19, 2013.

He stressed that the position of the Serbian president was very clear - first the CSM, then we can continue to talk.

On the question of whether Albin Kurti, the representative of Pristina, will fulfill the demand to form the CSM after May 2, Dacic says that a difficult process lies ahead of us.

"There will be a million different problems, Kurti's ultimate goal is not the Community of Serb Municipalities but to have no Serbs in Kosovo. He would most like to do that through some quick intervention, but it is clear to everyone that Serbia will not allow it," Dacic said, who signed the agreement with the representative of Pristina, President Hashim Thaci, in the presence of Catherine Ashton, who was then the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

The minister reminded that he had been in Strasbourg the day before, where Serbia's 20 years of membership in the Council of Europe had been celebrated, but that at the same time, an attempt had been made to initiate the procedure for Kosovo's membership in the Council of Europe.

According to Dacic, Germany is exerting enormous pressure to start that procedure, and he reminds that the Council of Europe is the only remaining institution for which Kosovo does not need Belgrade's consent to join – they just need a two-thirds majority of all members.

"It has never happened before that something that is not a state has been accepted in the Council of Europe," Dacic reminded and assessed that precedents are being set.

"When you talk to them about the territorial integrity of Serbia, in response to the Germans insisting on and emphasizing the importance of Ukraine's territorial integrity, your words bounce off the walls. They have their own policy and will try to push it through, whether today, tomorrow, or in a month. We have to be ready and see how we will continue to participate in all of this; we cannot leave the EU, but that shows how much these institutions are losing their meaning," Dacic said.