Dacic: Our achievements in international arena will go down in history

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy PM and Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said on Monday evening Serbia's current international position was quite different compared to 2008 or 2012 and that its achievements in the international arena would go down in national history.

In an appearance on a Happy TV talk show, Dacic said Serbia had had no say about anything in 2008 and that, at the time, 80 countries had recognised the so-called Kosovo in a year.

The fact a certain number of countries have derecognised the so-called Kosovo is a great diplomatic success for Serbia, he said.

"Had we not shifted that balance, had 28 countries not derecognised it, we would still have an impasse over Kosovo-Metohija," Dacic said, adding that the situation regarding a recent vote on a UNGA resolution on Srebrenica would have been different, too.

He said that, as Serbia's FM, he had been...