Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic described Ukraine’s position in the Council of Europe as unacceptable while voting on Kosovo’s membership in this organisation. This was reported by the TV channel. RTV.
Of the 46 members of the Council of Europe, 33 supported the decision to start the procedure for evaluating Kosovo’s application for Council of Europe membership, seven opposed, five abstained, and one country did not participate in the vote.
Dacic thanked all the countries that voted against and showed that they are friends of Serbia. These are Cyprus, Spain, Romania, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Hungary.
He also noted that Belgrade is not satisfied with the situation of Greece and Slovakia, as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina, which abstained. “They play a direct role in the destruction of Serbia’s territorial integrity,” said Dacic.
He particularly emphasized the position of Ukraine, which also abstained. “Look at how many problems we have with preserving Ukraine’s territorial integrity, look at how hard we have been voting everywhere and justifying ourselves, because someone is accusing us of not supporting Ukraine’s territorial integrity enough and Ukraine is abstaining when it comes to our issue. territorial integrity. “It is absolutely unacceptable,” said the head of the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He noted that Belgrade did not expect this from these countries. I don’t know what Serbia did to deserve this. “I have to say that this will definitely have some ramifications for our relations,” Dacic said.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic aforementioned He said that in the Kosovo negotiations, representatives of the EU and the West deceived him for 10 years.