European Parliament Rapporteur for Kosovo Viola von Cramon MEP told Nova daily on Tuesday that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s claim of a painful right arm preventing him from signing the Basic Agreement was very badly received in Brussels.

Those words met with a very bad reception in Brussels and key European Union capitals, she said. Vucic told a news conference following the meeting in Ohrid that he has and will have an unbearable pain pain in his right arm preventing him from signing anything.

She said that she understands that statements like that are intended for the domestic public.
Von Cramon said that Vucic’s statements before the Basic Agreement was reached were praiseworthy because they paved the way for the agreement but added that it’s not up to Serbia to decide if Kosovo can join the UN.