Vucevic: Quint's goal is for Serbia to recognize Kosovo and Metohija's independence as soon as possible

Serbian Minister of Defense Milos Vucevic stated that the goal of the Quint countries was for Serbia to recognize the independence of Kosovo as soon as possible so that Russia or someone else, as he stated, would not use the Kosovo precedent and aggression against a country to secede part of its territory, RTV reports.

"If Serbia agrees to Kosovo and Metohija's independence, there will be no violent secession, and they promise that Serbia will only then gain some perspective," Vucevic said for Prva TV.

According to him, it is good that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has shown his feelings because Serbia is fair, but that they behave so unfairly towards Serbia in the negotiating process regarding Kosovo.

"It is impossible to hide disappointment, anger, and concern for the security of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija," Vucevic said.

He called on Serbs in Kosovo to remain calm and not fall for provocations during the extraordinary elections to be held on Sunday in northern Kosovo.

"Do not fall for provocations, so that it is not the case that Serbs prevented the organization of the elections. We must look at it with contempt, and if the Serbian community has decided to boycott, then the boycott must be absolute so that it does not appear that we prevented the so-called festival of democracy that they prepared with two percent of people who want to impose their rule on the majority of 98 percent," Vucevic said.

He assessed that even after ten years since the Brussels Agreement, there was a fear that the establishment of the Community of Serb Municipalities would be caricatured and simulated without real authority.

"That is the way for Kurti to denounce the whole story about the Community of Serb Municipalities, to say that it no longer makes any sense since the mayors of Kosovska Mitrovica, Zvecan, Zubin Potok, and Leposavic do not want to be part of the CSM," Vucevic said.

According to him, there will be more armed Kosovo police officers at polling stations in northern Kosovo than voters.

"Vucic very vividly explained how there will be more armed people around polling stations at police checkpoints and containers guarded by KFOR, special police forces, and secret police than there will be voters, in order to maintain the 'democratic atmosphere' supported by the Quint countries," Vucevic concluded.