"There has been enough of the Kosovo is Serbia policy, because in real life Kosovo is ever more distant from Serbia. We don't want independence for the province, but we must say what we want," Dacic said at a meeting of the main board of the Serbian Socialist Party (SPS), of which he is president.

Dacic underlined that the only way to reach a solution to Kosovo was through dialogue and that the Serbian state leadership was searching for the solution. He said the priority was caring for the Serbs living in Kosovo and described as hypocrites those who now blamed the Socialists for the Kosovo situation while during NATO's 1999 bombing campaign they fled the country or sent their children to be educated in EU countries.

"The SPS fought a war for Kosovo and we are now being accused by those who were surrendering Kosovo every day for 13 years and who failed to preserve what we did. During their time the foundations were built for Kosovo's sovereignty. Now we must save what can be saved," Dacic said.