Vucic: Big shots coming in January to say we must reach agreement

“I am asking them to act in accordance with what has been promised…I called the European representatives this morning and told them: ‘Pay attention, the situation is far more dangerous and difficult than you think,” Vucic told the media in the Serbian Presidency.

Asked how he views the international representatives’ initiatives to take advantage of the lifting of the barricades in Kosovo to resume the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, Vucic said the important thing is for them to fulfil all the guarantees that have been given.

The Serbian President said he was very afraid of some international representatives’ lack of responsibility and of “the Pristina authorities’ arrogance.”

I expect the big shots to come in January and to tell me that we have to reach an agreement, said Vucic, adding: “Difficult times await us regarding the issue of Kosovo and Metohija, but we will fight. We have fought so far, and we have won and managed to preserve peace and stability.”

The Serbian President said there is nothing bad for the Serbs in the joint statement issued by the European Union (EU) and the US, or in that issued by KFOR, following which the Serbs in north Kosovo removed the barricades.

“In the NATO paper we have, for the first time, something that applies to both sides, we have guarantees that what Pristina calls its military, its security forces, in a statement that is not ‘inter ‘partes’ between the Albanians and NATO, that they cannot come to the north without not only the consent of NATO but also without the consent of the local Serbs and Serbia. We never had this until today,” said the Serbian President.

He said it was important that the document stipulates that people will not be prosecuted for erecting the barricades. “There were no dead or wounded there. You have nothing to prosecute the people at the barricades for,” said Vucic.

The President stressed that Kosovo Serbs want to know that they live in Serbia and not in some other state, adding he does not have a problem with those who think Kosovo is independent. “That’s their business. We have the country’s Constitution which has to be honored until it is amended,” said Vucic.