Gouillon: Vucic presented precise arguments at the UN; what he said will change many things

Director of the Office for Cooperation with the Diaspora at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Arnaud Gouillon, assessed that President Aleksandar Vucic had presented very precise arguments to the UN Security Council and that what he had said could change many things on the international level.

"He did not speak emotionally but showed what was really happening. He used legal terminology, such as the fact that the Serbs are experiencing persecution that creates intolerable living conditions, causing irreparable damage to the survival of the Serbs," Gouillon said for TV Prva.

He added that perhaps thanks to this terminology, Serbian diplomacy would act in different directions in the coming period.

"We need to look at what Vucic said and how he said it, because what he said is historical and will change many things at the international level," Gouillon said.

He also pointed out that the image that went out into the world was that Serbia was a serious state, primarily a state, which Kosovo was not. 

"We saw Kurti, who was in some kind of imagination, in a parallel reality, claiming that genocide had been carried out against the Albanians for a century and a half, without arguments, because that is not true. This is an expression of the parallel reality that they have created. If there was genocide against the Albanians, then how did they come to become more than 90 percent of the population in Kosovo and Metohija," Gouillon said.

Diplomat Zoran Milivojevic said that this had been the first time since the Kosovo issue had been opened that there had been an emergency session at the request of Serbia, based on the UN Charter and UN Security Council Resolution 1244, confirming two things - that Kosovo and Metohija was still a part of Serbia, the subject and obligation of the UN and UN Security Council, and that the situation in Kosovo was discussed in the function of protecting the interests of Serbia and the Serbs.

"We are not even aware of the significance of this session and what it means to return this issue to where it belongs. Kosovo is not and will not be a state, and this should have been the concern of all political actors, especially those who two days before that swore in parliament," Milivojevic said, with the remark that at that moment, a part of the opposition was seeking internationalization of a strictly internal issue.

Milivojevic also said that it was crucial that the Security Council session had been convened at the request of Serbia, as a full member of the UN, of which Kosovo was a part.

"Arguments were presented that the Serbs and peace and security in Kosovo are endangered, that international factors responsible for this are not doing their job, and that the situation is not good, and that there are all reasons for a behavior change, both of Pristina and the international factor. All these elements give the session a special significance," Milivojevic said.

He noted that during the session, no one had disputed that Pristina was responsible for this situation, as it caused consequences that led to endangering the Serbs, peace, and security through measures and actions.