"The international community was saying earlier that there would be no division of Kosovo, that the maximum for Serbs was extensive autonomy in the north. Now no autonomy is being offered. Every French city has more powers than the Serb community in Kosovo," Dacic said in an interview with Le Monde.

He said the proposal from Brussels envisaged the formation of a "protocolary community of Serbs, without executive powers, which can print publications and hold round tables but which has no powers in education, health and culture" and notably not in the judiciary and the police.

Dacic said there was a "conflict of two fictions" in Kosovo - "that the entire province belongs to Serbia and that Pristina has sovereignty throughout Kosovo."

He said Pristina had rejected Belgrade's proposal to have the Serb community set up a regional police command, an appellate court on the territory of the Serb community, and that the only military on that territory be comprised of Serbs "until mutual trust is established."

"Serbia is faced with a tough problem. We can't accept that proposal, yet we can't reject it because it is directly tied to our European integration... We don't have the support like Kosovo PM Hashim Thaci, who not only has the US but the European Union as well. We are completely alone," Dacic was quoted as saying.

After eight rounds of failed negotiations with Pristina, Brussels gave Belgrade until Tuesday to accept or reject a solution for Serbs in Kosovo being offered by Kosovo with US and EU support. If it rejects the offer, Serbia loses the chance to get a date for the start of EU accession negotiations. According to Serbia's state leadership, if Belgrade accepts the offer, it will be at the expense of Kosovo Serbs.