International Court of Justice advisory opinion on Kosovo's declaration of independence

Foreign Minister and First Deputy PM Ivica Dacic on Thursday ruled out the possibility of Kosovo joining the UN by saying this was "out of the question."

Asked whether he considers the issue of Kosovo's possible "chair" in the UN to be a topic, Dacic replied: "What chair - maybe a wooden footstool. That's out of the question!"

Ivica Dacic on Tuesday pointed to EU double standards in interpreting the referendum in Catalonia and the unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo.

Speaking for RTS, in remarks carried by the Serbian government, the foreign minister stressed that both cases represented unilateral acts contrary to international law.

NEW YORK - Reaching a political solution for the issue of Kosovo- Metohija is the national priority for Serbia, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said in the UN General Assembly on Thursday.

"You know that we do not recognise the unilateral declaration of independence of the so-called Kosovo," Vucic said, calling on UN member states not to allow an admission of Kosovo to UNESCO.

NEW YORK - The next UN Security Council meeting on Kosovo should be held on May 16, the UN has announced on its website.

The UN secretary-general's regular quarterly report on the situation in Kosovo should be presented at the meeting.

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One of the main opposition leaders in Montenegro, Nebojsa Medojevic, called on the government to protect the border with Kosovo and withdraw recognition of Kosovo's independence - after Kosovo again delayed a vote in its parliament on the vexed frontier demarcation deal.

US Senator John McCain has hailed former Yugoslavia's republic of Kosovo as a developing democracy that the United Stats had been supporting "from the very beginning" in its attempts to gain independence from Serbia.

BELGRADE - Ukrainian Ambassador to Serbia Oleksandr Aleksandrovych said Wednesday the Kosovo government's decision to nationalise Serbian property in Kosovo was illegal.

Representatives of "the Quint" in Kosovo have called on Kosovo authorities not to take unilateral actions regarding the establishment of an army.

"The Quint" is comprised of the US, Germany, France, United Kingdom, and Italy.

Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said on Wednesday in Belgrade that his country will "never" recognize Kosovo.

Ethnic Albanians in Kosovo unilaterally declared independence in 2008, but Serbia rejected this proclamation as a violation of its territorial integrity and Constitution.

Kosovo is not a state, there is no law and justice there neither for Serbs nor for Albanians, and not everyone who lives in the territory accepts it as a state.