Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said last week that mutual recognition between Belgrade and Pristina, mentioned in the latest report on Serbia adopted by the European Parliament’s foreign affairs committee, was not a desire of Serbia, writes Serbian National Tanjug News Agency
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday a mutual recognition between Belgrade and Pristina, mentioned in the latest report on Serbia adopted by the European Parliament’s foreign affairs committee, was not a desire of Serbia.
Asked by reporters to comment on the fact the report was the first document containing a reference to mutual recognition in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, and whether he believed the dialogue would be expedited in a way because of the Ukraine crisis, Vucic said:
“It is a strange policy, those people there do not respect their own negotiating framework, adopted by the European Commission and approved by the European Council.”
He noted that the negotiating framework for Serbia’s EU accession process contained a reference to a comprehensive normalisation of the relations with Pristina.
“A mutual recognition is their desire, it is nice that they want that. We do not want that. Everyone should be doing their job – they will do theirs and we will do ours. They are very important, and we are not, but we can have our own opinion. We can afford to,” Vucic said ironically.
Vucic said he was prepared to take any blow because he knew that justice, morality and truth were on Serbia’s side.
However, the president said he was unable to deny the significance of general acts passed by the European Parliament, and added that they were no joking affair or something to be taken unseriously.
“But this is what our decision is and I believe the parliament and the government of Serbia, which are due to give their opinions on the issue, will soon confirm everything I have just told you,” Vucic said.
