Dacic at the UN Security Council: You saw, Pristina does not want dialogue, but the continuation of war and conflict; it is the theater of the absurd

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Ivica Dacic, said at the session of the UN Security Council that, after the address of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo, Donika Gervalla, everyone could see what the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina looked like, how much extremism there was on the Pristina side, which in fact did not want dialogue but the continuation of war and conflict.

"You also noticed a touch of racism, when he talks about Serbian DNA... I was born in Kosovo, and Gervalla in Skopje, in North Macedonia... so no one should give me lessons and lectures about the history of Kosovo," Dacic said and quoted Gervalla's statement from 1998, in which she stated that "the Albanians were mistaken when they thought that freedom would be brought to them by the Americans and that they should prepare to resolve the Kosovo issue by armed means."

He also stated that, when she said that her father had been killed by the Serbian secret service, she should know that in SFRY the federal security services had been mainly led by Slovenes, Croats, and others.

"And that shows that your age-old policy is an independent Kosovo, that's all you're interested in. Your hands are bloody. After all, you said in 2017 that you would forward the material to the Special Court on the crimes of Hashim Thaci and Kadri Veseli against political opponents, and they say that you did that and that's why you have security," Dacic said.

He reminded that 10 years ago he had signed the Brussels Agreement with Hashim Thaci and Catherine Ashton.

"I'm here, and where is Tachi? Why I was not charged, or Vucic - because we did not participate in it. But, thank you for your help in accusing Thaci and Veseli," Dacic said.

When it comes to accusations of genocide against Serbia, Dacic said that genocide was a crime in which the party against whom genocide was perpetrated had great human and material victims and noted that 40,000 Serbs had once lived in Pristina, and today there were several hundred, and in Prizren more than 10,000 in contrast to today's 25 Serbs.

"Where are your Serbs today? When genocide is being committed, you should have had a less reversed figure. What are you talking about? Every meter of Kosovo land, throughout the centuries, has been soaked in Serbian blood. You are talking about bloody hands..." Dacic said and added that the UN Security Council Resolutions 1160, 1199, and 1203 referred to the KLA as a terrorist group, because they stated that Kosovo Albanians were called to disband terrorist groups.

He also asked if Pristina, when it talked about harmonizing its foreign policy with the EU, also meant the decision to open an embassy in Jerusalem.

"Is it in line with the EU or did you need it to get recognition from Israel?" We are small, but we are not stupid," Dacic said.

Regarding the boycott of elections by the Serbs in Kosovo, Dacic noted that Albanians from Kosovo had been boycotting elections in Serbia all their lives.

"You can tell that to those who don't know... This is the theater of the absurd. If Kosovo was yours, you would have an Albanian word, and you would not use the Serbian word - Kosovo," Dacic stated.

He reminded that the crimes committed against the Serbs in Kosovo – the Staro Gracko massacre, the murdered children in Gorazdevac, the crime in Klecka, the 1,300 kidnapped...

"There is no selective approach, every war criminal should be held accountable, but selective and double standards have led to the fact that you only talk about those crimes that were allegedly only against the Albanian side," Dacic said.

He said that the statements of "citizen Gervalla" would go down in history, because even Orwell could envy them, and "many people might think that there is a hidden camera".

"She says, Kosovo is the most democratic country in the Balkans. Come on, why you are insulting Serbia, but how many other countries are there in the Balkans... You say that Kosovo is the guarantor of peace and stability... For centuries, you were a myth of stability, in the First World War when you were against the US, and France, or in the Second World War war when you were for Hitler... You were always on the right side of freedom and peace and stability... You say that when Kosovo promises something, then it fulfills it, that is a tragicomedy," Dacic said.

He stated that she was right when she said that it was a farce when agreements were not fulfilled because the international community had been tolerating Pristina for 10 years not fulfilling the Community of Serb-majority Municipalities.

"I did not invent the Community of Serb-majority Municipalities; it was a request of the international community. And now you are talking about Vucic and Dacic... As far as international obligations are concerned, we fulfill them and the international representatives know that... They came to pressure you, not to praise you for being the pinnacle of democracy," Dacic remarked.

He asked Gervalla how she could talk about the Serbian world or "Greater Serbia" when Albanians celebrated Flag Day, and everyone knew that their political goal was unification with Albania.

"You speak of a 'Greater Serbia' and the Serbian world, and you have been advocating for the unification of all Albanians since the League of Prizren. Were there Vucic and Dacic, or Milosevic, no, it was Tito, whom you supposedly loved and gave him the Relay of Youth. How hypocritical is it, that you hate Serbia, but if you can use it, there is no problem," Dacic said.

In this sense, he pointed to the list of UN employees, not counting UNMIK, which had 240 people behind whose names Serbia is written, of which 123 are Serbs and 105 are Albanians.

"How are you not ashamed? But if you can take a few thousand dollars - no problem. Among those names are those in high positions, and one is the highest that Serbia has. You who do not recognize Serbia, you are the representatives of Serbia here. If you are so principled, say we don't want Serbia, it is disgusting to us... I think it would be correct whether you recognize Serbia or not, and according to what principle they are the representatives of Serbia in the UN," Dacic said.

He also pointed out that there was a fundamental difference regarding the recognition of Kosovo - period.

"We don't consider Kosovo to be a state, you think it is. You have your approach, we have ours. Every country has its own Kosovo, and that's why every country thinks about how to approach solving that issue. We believe that Kosovo is Serbia. We ask you to adopt the approach of the political will that everyone has expressed to try to make the dialogue succeed," Dacic said.

He also stated that the "red lines" of Belgrade were known, as well as that Aleksandar Vucic had not signed the agreement, and said that any recognition of Kosovo and membership in the UN was unacceptable for Serbia, as well as that the first condition for implementation was the CSM.

"YOU don't want peace. You are full of hate, you want war. We are not afraid of you, the international community should be afraid of you. That's what Escobar says, the CSM will be formed with Kurti or without him. We want a dialogue, but we don't want it to be misused so that someone does not fulfill his obligations and is rewarded. And that happens when it comes to Pristina. We have to talk, but if we want something to succeed, we have to have the political will, but I'm sure that's not the case with the representatives of the Pristina administration led by Kurti," Dacic concluded.