Serbia "not equipped" to take part in new Cold War

Serbia "not equipped" to take part in new Cold War

"Of course we will, because the EU is our priority not only politically, but also essentially over the years that are ahead of us, every day be closer to what is called the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU," said Dačić.

He said that Serbia "supports the territorial integrity of any state, and Ukraine, therefore, with Crimea".

"There is not and will not be any dispute in Serbia over that stance. As there is no dispute about our European road. But in all this we are very aware that about the most important issues - we do not decide. For that reason we have no dilemma, for example, about South Stream. It will happen if Russia and the EU so decide and agree, and not if Serbia rejects or accepts it. After all, Serbia is the only non-EU member, besides Russia itself, on the South Stream (pipeline's) route."

"The only thing that Serbia asks today is that the fact that it is not, and probably never will be in a position to sanction anyone be respected. But we insist on dialogue and compromise solutions to all crises in the world, and will continue to do that as the country presiding over the OSCE next year," he said.

Dačić wrote that "anyone who deals at least a little bit with geopolitics and relationships in the world knows very well that some kind of 'peace' between the big powers cannot be, because there are too many interests, too much money, oil, gas, weapons.. to allow the big great powers to see each other in any other way except as eternally opposed opponents."

Dačić added that "of course, much has changed since the 'official' Cold War" and that things are now done "in a more stealthy and sophisticated manner, from the intent to the realization."

"Unchanged is only one thing - the same rules do not apply to the big opponents and to other mortals," wrote Dačić.

Serbia, he said, "learned the hard way that the rules for it and them are by no means the same."

"For our mistakes, for our wrong ambition, and for our crimes (and we recognized that there were), we paid, and we pay today, a serious price. Those great powers, they do not have to worry about that part. There are no courts for them," said Dačić.

He further pointed out that Serbia is "not equipped or capable for a cold war," and then asserted that the country "has long been accustomed to be definitely guilty in every war and for every war, regardless on whose side it fought and how it fared in the end."

"Even now, a hundred years after the First World War, in which we officially were among the winners, one of the favorite topics in the world is - Serb guilt for the outbreak of the war. So, since we are guilty for these wars, because in them we perish and lose, and never win anything - it is clear why we today do not wish to take part in this never-interrupted war. Serbia will not be a new Gavrilo Princip of some new world order," wrote Dačić.