Vucic: EU, US increasing pressure to recognize Kosovo; Spain denies it will

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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday that the pressure from the European Union and America to find a solution for Kosovo is increasing.

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He told the pro-government Happy TV that the EU and US want Serbia to recognize Kosovo, adding that there is no reason to panic despite the increased pressure. “They want to push us against the wall to stop our economic development,” he said adding that he was told by a Chinese official that Kosovo is just part of the plan to destroy Serbia.

Spanish Foreign Ministry denied late on Monday, Madrid would change its policy and recognise Kosovo’s independence.

In its answer to Pristina’s RTK2, the Ministry said Spain “doesn’t plan to open a liaison office in Pristina,” after media speculation about Madrid’s move to establish diplomatic ties with Kosovo.

Spain is among five EU member states, alongside Greece, Cyprus, Romania and Slovakia, that has so far refused to recognise Kosovo's idnependence declared in 2008.

According to Vucic, the pressure is also being increased on Spain, one of the EU member states that does not recognize Kosovo. He expressed the hope that Greece will not follow in Israel’s steps on Kosovo.

Vucic said that he had offered Pristina a compromise “a thousand times” but that the “Greater Albania hawks enjoy huge sympathy in the West, Germany more than the US”. “The only change now is that they want not only independent Kosovo but a Greater Albania alnog with the Presevo valley (in southern Serbia),” he said.

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