Vucic: Pristina's threat to abolish payment transactions concerning

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, who is attending the annual World Economic Forum Summit in Davos, emphasized that he was concerned about threats from Pristina, as they had announced their readiness to consider abolishing payment transactions and banning the use of the dinar.

"The most important meetings are yet to come because of everything we expect to happen due to the threats from Pristina to the Serbs. My job is to care for the Serbs and regional peace. We received an announcement from Pristina that they were ready to consider abolishing payment transactions with central Serbia, banning the use of the dinar, and entering the Postal Savings Bank in Kosovo. This not only worries us but calls into question all processes of normalization and dialogue", Vucic said in a statement to reporters.

He emphasized that this would be the key topic of tonight's conversation with US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs James O’Brien.

He added that the topic would also be who was arming themselves, why and how, what had been done in accordance with international law, and what had not.

"It is very important to achieve the highest level of understanding with the United States", the President of Serbia emphasized.

Vucic noted that in his address, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, as a man leading security, but also every other strategic policy of the US, had focused on four topics, from which the priorities of US foreign policy were publicly visible.

"These topics are the US-China relationship, which, although he did not rank it that way, may have been the most important, the conflict in Ukraine, the conflict in Gaza and the Red Sea with the Yemeni Houthis, and North Korea and Iran. Anyone who listens carefully could see what the priorities of US policy are expected to be in the coming period", Vucic pointed out.

It is noticeable, he says, that the EU and the US will homogenize more strongly and, from their perspective, resist more forcefully, while from the perspective of others, they will build their own order.

"There were other important sentences there, about how in a multipolar world, multilateralism will strengthen in one way or another, not suiting the other side. By restoring the rights some countries lost in 1945... Although Sullivan mentioned the entry of the African Union into the G20, it is clear that he did not mean that but some other things", the President of Serbia noted.

He added that a tough day awaited tomorrow, with many discussions, as well as meetings on the Western Balkans, but also on the situation in Europe and the world.

"It is up to us to preserve peace, to prepare for something huge, and we will present citizens with a robust plan for the future of Serbia", Vucic said.

He also added that it was Sullivan who had said that although everyone always said they lived in difficult times, the period we lived in was objectively the most challenging.

"I cannot say that it is harder for us than during the NATO aggression against Serbia, but the times are more complex, more complicated, and politically more comprehensive. In order to avoid everything and move the country forward, we have a development plan", Vucic said.

Asked whether the Kosovo issue could stop all planned projects, what the announcements from Pristina meant for the citizens, and whether yesterday's bomb explosion in North Mitrovica was a warning to the Serbs that they would end up like Oliver Ivanovic, Vucic said that the nature of the attack was still being investigated.

"We are still investigating, and I would not like to draw conclusions about what happened, whether it is related to ethnic attacks on members of the Serbs. We will know the nature of the attack in a very short time. We do not have an effective government in Kosovo that can quickly find the perpetrators", the President of Serbia explained.

Vucic said it was a shame that there were people who wanted to say that Serbs threw a bomb at Serbs, and added that they did it because someone had paid them to say that.

"These are people who always look for the culprit in their own state", he criticized.

Vucic warned that there would be many more difficult decisions and that he would discuss everything with O'Brien and many others.

Asked whether this could have an impact regarding new threats from Pristina, given that Albin Kurti did nothing independently, he said he hoped and wanted to believe that the Americans were not behind what Pristina was planning.

"Did I think that Kurti was too independent at one point and was my thought wrong? Yes, because it shows the support he received from Berlin and the 'Javelin' missiles from America. I want and hope that the Americans do not support such things", President Vucic concluded.