| Tuesday, 19 March 2019. |
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| Minister Dacic’s Statement | |
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 "Over the past few days, we have witnessed all over again a campaign of lies and insults laid at the door of Belgrade by Pristina. And so, even though the media in Pristina denied all these months that some countries revoked their recognition of unilaterally declared independence of Kosovo, today they invoke some false protocols and statements of some ministers that have allegedly been bribed by us. They even go as far as to claim that we gave or sold arms to them in return. I shall not comment on these allegations. Obviously, they think that we are like them. As to their claims about countries that recognized "Kosovo", I have to say that there is enough credible evidence to support claims of genuine corruption on their part. But let's leave this aside for a moment. Some of these countries, eligible to vote at the INTERPOL General Assembly, voted against them – they mention Lesotho, Burundi and Suriname and state that their revocation of recognition were falsehoods. Still, these countries voted against "Kosovo" admission to INTERPOL. If they seek to convince their own and international public not to believe their own eyes, there is nothing I can say. Thirteen countries have revoked their recognition of Kosovo, they no longer have majority in any international organization and that this trend continues. The lies we saw today and yesterday are the best illustration of that. We shall now make it available to all media - Behgjet Pacolli allegedly tweeted a congratulatory message to the newly-appointed Foreign Minister of Algeria Lamamra, who allegedly tweeted him back and sent greetings to the people of Kosovo and invited Pacolli to visit Algeria in the next few weeks. However, Foreign Minister Lamamra, currently on an official visit to the Russian Federation, was asked at a joint press conference with Sergey Lavrov to make a comment on this and you can see for yourself that question and the reply thereto. The whole affair is a lie, it was a false tweet account, no messages were exchanged, etc.
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