Vucevic: The meeting in Ohrid is not D-Day for Serbia, but difficult talks are ahead

Minister of Defense of Serbia, Milos Vucevic, says that the meeting between Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti in Ohrid will not be D-Day, but there will be many more difficult days and many complex talks, negotiations, diplomacy, and defense of state and national interests, RTS reports.

The media reports that March 18, when a high-level meeting was announced in Ohrid, could be D-Day in the talks between Belgrade and Pristina, and Vucevic says that it is being mentioned for the umpteenth time.

"There is no D-Day, but there are many difficult days and many complex conversations, negotiations, diplomacy, defense of state and national interests," Vucevic says.

On the occasion of the arrival of the EU Special Envoy, Miroslav Lajcak, in Belgrade tomorrow, Vucevic says that Serbia has never shied away from talks and will not now either.

"Serbia has never shied away from the conversation; everyone is welcome and I have no doubt that Serbia will be a good host to Miroslac Lajcak, as it has always been. Of course, the question of all questions arises - that is, where is the Community of Serb-majority Municipalities and what is to be done with it, and then we can continue to discuss all other topics and issues, except for the recognition of the independence of the Republic of Kosovo and Kosovo's entry into the UN," Vucevic says.

For the People's Movement for Serbia, Vucevic says that it is above the party in its form, as well as that it was designed and proposed as a movement that should unite different political parties, as well as people who are not party members.
Vucevic points out that on May 27, the Serbian Progressive Party Assembly will decide, among other things, on the proposal of President Aleksandar Vucic.

"That Serbian Progressive Party invites all those who see Serbia as a free and independent country, in which they want Serbia to make decisions taking into account its state and national interests, and not listening to dictates from one, the other or a third party, sitting on their chair and thinking on their own - to unite in one movement of this kind, a front for the defense of Serbia, first of all, in the period that is ahead of us, bearing in mind everything that is happening in the world, and the pressures that Serbia is exposed to," Vucevic points out.

He emphasizes that it is a movement above the party that does not extinguish political parties.

"We certainly will not give up the Serbian Progressive Party, as I assume some other parties that will be part of that movement and want to be. It will be above political parties. The parties will have their own physiognomy, their own politics, this will be something that covers a wider spectrum not only political parties, but all those who are well-intentioned and who look to the future of their country, all those who want Serbia to make its own decisions independently and freely," Vucevic explains.

Speaking about whether the establishment of this movement is a prelude to extraordinary parliamentary elections, Vucevic says that it is not if they did not know that there would be no parliamentary elections.

Vucevic says the movement should be ready to respond to internal and external circumstances.

"These are related courts - what is happening outside, primarily speaking of pressure on the issue of Kosovo and Metohija or what is happening in Ukraine and not allowing Serbia to be militarily neutral and to have its own policy and position, and we think that we have the most principled policy, that is respect for international public law, requires a wider grouping of all those who see Serbia as a country that can think for itself," Vucevic says.