President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday addressing the public from the presidency building, following the latest round of talks on Kosovo in Ohrid, that it is important for Serbia to no longer depend only on Pristina's goodwill, which is a positive development in the negotiations, “but also on how much we are ready to do certain things.”

After reading the entire Annex to the agreement on the normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina, he said that he did not sign either the Agreement or the Annex “primarily because Serbia is an internationally recognized state, Kosovo is not for me, and I do not want to make international legal agreements with the Republic of Kosovo.”

He pointed out that his statements are important for the country, and therefore he speaks unequivocally about the red lines for Serbia, which include the objection to Kosovo’s recognition and its admission to the UN.

“That’s exactly why we didn’t sign what the EU called the agreement or the annex,” he said.

He indicated that Serbia is ready to work on implementation up to its red lines.

“We accept the concept, we will work on implementation, and we are much more ready than someone in Pristina, who is ready to sign, and he is ready to sign because that would result in a formal and legal obligation for Serbia to agree to Kosovo’s independence,” said Vucic.

Vucic said he has and will have an unbearable pain pain in his right arm preventing him from signing anything.

He also said that an important topic to be discussed is the missing persons issue.

“Everyone wants to solve the problem of missing persons, everyone’s mother wants to know where her child is buried or not,” said Vucic.

He said that until now Pristina used the issue of missing persons as an instrument of pressure on Serbia.

When it comes to the issue of the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO), Vucic said that it is very important for Serbia that the Annex clearly mentions the agreements reached in the dialogue process.

He said that during the conversation, Kurti presented his three pillars on which he wanted the ZSO to be formed, which was not accepted.

“The first pillar is the Constitution of Kosovo, the second pillar is Federica Mogherini’s unilateral statement to Isa Mustafa that these should not be executive powers and the third pillar is the letter to the editors signed by Derek Chollet and Gabriel Escobar,” said Vucic, adding that “we have signatures on four agreements on the basis of which the ZSO should be formed.”