Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic wrote a letter to his US counterpart Donald Trump asking him again to visit Serbia and thanked him for support to Serbia's European path and efforts in preserving peace and stability in the Western Balkans, N1 reported on Thursday.
Vucic added his country was committed to the Belgrade – Pristina dialogue on normalisation of relations and face it with “courage and reality,“ taking into account the future of the entire Western Balkans.
Vucic’s letter followed Trump’s to both him and Kosovo’s President Hashim Thaci last December.
“In your kind letter from December 14, you reiterated the US readiness to help the dialogue finds a solution to the centuries-long Kosovo problem. No one cares more about that solution than my country,” Vucic wrote.
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However, he said Serbia could not solve the problem on its own.
“Regardless of our will and trust, the taxes (to goods from Serbia and Bosnia) that Pristina introduced are a burden and unbridgeable obstacle for the resumption of the dialogue… I stress again – the moment Pristina revokes that unreasonable and damaging measure, we are ready to continue the dialogue in search for a long-lasting and sustainable solution,” Serbia’s President said in the letter.
He recalled the last year’s marking of the centennial of the Serb flag flying over the White House in honour of Serbia’s sacrifices during the WW I and the historic alliance with the US.
“Once again I want to invite you to visit Serbia as the first US President after almost 40 years,” Vucic said.
The last US heads of state who visited Belgrade as the then capital of former Yugoslavia were Richard Nixon in 1970 and Gerald Ford five years later. No other president came to Serbia since 2006 when it became an independent state after Montenegro seceded from the country called the Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
