Dacic: No one should be lecturing us on human rights

The fact that some countries in our neighborhood are member-states of the European Union does not mean that Serbia should be putting up with hypocritical remarks from them

Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said in Jagodina on Wednesday, that Serbia was pursuing the politics of peace and was tired of being lectured to on human rights and the rights of national minorities.

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- We as the strong, the strongest and the biggest in this region, we want to be an example to others - Dacic said emphatically at a ceremony of unveiling of a wax figure of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Wax Figures Museum in Jagodina, central Serbia.

The fact that some countries in our neighborhood are member-states of the European Union does not mean that Serbia should be putting up with hypocritical remarks from them.

Serbia should not be lectured to by those who "expelled hundreds of thousands of Serbs from their homes and killed thousands of people in genocide in Ustasha and Nazi camps during the Second World War, or those who killed Serbs and traded in their organs in Kosovo-Metohija," said Dacic.

Dacic added that he did not want to be comparing between our and their victims, but rather wanted Serbia to move forward and be big and strong, and our country had to be stable and economically developed for that to be possible.

(Telegraf.co.uk / Tanjug)