Vucic: Kurti is deliberately delaying meeting with me in Brussels

Predsednik Srbije Aleksandar Vučić
Source: Kosovo Online

The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, said that the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, was deliberately delaying the meeting with him in Brussels in order to, as he said, "do his dirty work" in Kosovo, RTV reports.

"They offered me a date to go to Brussels, but no... Kurti has better things to do because he is buying time to put his threats into action, I'm sure of that," Vucic said.

"In a few months, someone will try to talk, and in the meantime, how many Serbs have been arrested, wounded, injured, how many medicines are left in Serbian hospitals, and what new measures have been adopted, from the law on expropriation and the implementation of expropriation to the fact that his deadlines for Serbs to leave the premises are expiring, so that he would take them..." Vucic said during a tour of the village of Veliki Radinci.

When asked by journalists what he expected from tomorrow's meeting with US Congressman Michael Turner and the EU Envoy for Dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, Miroslav Lajcak, Vucic replied that these talks would not be easy in the conditions in which the whole world was dealing with the war in Ukraine, and every day there was conditioning to line up, because "if you are not with us, then you are against us".

"There are many people in our country who would in every way wish that Serbia could not lead its own politics and enjoy the fact that Serbia cannot lead its own politics. Simply, I think the bottom line is that we must continue to make independent decisions, to know what we are doing on the European road, but to protect our country," Vucic said.

Vucic: I am not calling the elections, but there will be elections since the opposition wants it

Vucic said that, although he was not calling the elections, there would be elections, since the opposition wanted it.

"First they said - we won't let you call elections, so I say that's fine - you're very strong, so I have to listen to you... But then they say - well, now we want elections, so I'll give it to them. But I don't call the elections. Certain conditions have to be met, but since I can see that they want them, they will get them. It is easy to say bad things instead of doing something. And since they are favorites, I wish them success,'' Vucic said.