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Dacic Claims Kosovo No Longer Has Majority in UN after Sierra Leone Withdrew Recognition

Politiko 4 Mars 2020, 14:07
Dacic Claims Kosovo No Longer Has Majority in UN after Sierra Leone Withdrew

Sierra Leone has withdrawn the recognition of Kosovo as an independent state, said the Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic on Tuesday, who is currently in an official visit to that country.

“With special pleasure, I can show the note of the Foreign Ministry in which it is stated that Sierra Leone is withdrawing the recognition of Kosovo as an independent state and will respect the results arrived at in the dialogue, with the intermediacy of the EU and UN”, Dacic told Tanjug agency, one day after the Serbian President AleksandarVucic said in Washington that he was expecting decisions soon of several countries withdrawing the recognition of Kosovo.

Sierra Leone is the 18th country to withdraw the recognition of Kosovo, which means that Kosovo “no longer has a majority in the UN”, Dacic said on Tuesday.

Out of the 193 UN member-countries, 92 recognize independent Kosovo, 96 countries do not recognize it, while five countries “have a fluid standpoint, i.e., for the most part, recognize Kosovo, but no longer vote for it”, he said.

In Pristina, Dacic’s claims were greeted with skepticism and a repeated demand that Belgrade put a stop to the campaign for the withdrawal of the recognition of Kosovo independence.

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti said that first it should be verified whether that which Dacic had said was true at all, and requested of the United States and European Union to exercise pressure on Serbia so that it would stop lobbying for the withdrawal of the recognition of Kosovo.

Belgrade should “stop the offensive and give up on the destructive policy against Kosovo and its statehood”, Kurti added.

Kosovo Foreign Minister went a step further and denied that Sierra Leone had withdrawn the recognition of Kosovo.

Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic, however, rejected these claims.

“Dacic has shown the note [of Sierra Leone’s] Foreign Ministry [on the withdrawal of the recognition of Kosovo] and that is all we have to say on the subject”, Brnabic told reporters on Mt. Kopaonik.

“Serbia has the right to continue its diplomatic activities. The measures in which Pristina has introduced [tariffs of 100% on goods from Serbia] have nothing to do with the activities on the withdrawal of recognition. Those are economic measures, they concern trade and they are not political. We have never and we will not ever put a sign of equality there. And the fact that they repeat this does not mean that it is true”, she said.

“If Pristina, while the dialogue is ongoing, stops its campaign for recognition and membership in international organizations, then we can talk about whether we could in that case stop with the campaign for the withdrawal of recognition”, Brnabic said.

 

 

 

 

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