Vucic on talks in Brussels: I am not an optimist; Pristina causes conflicts every day

The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, said today that tomorrow's negotiations at the technical level in Brussels would be difficult, because, as he stated, he did not think that Pristina was planning to actually do anything.

Vucic told TV Pink that "the essential problem between us is who will say what, not who will apply it and how".

"It is only a 'benchmark' of how far you are progressing on the European road," Vucic said.

According to him, much more important than that, was whether we could really normalize relations with the Albanians in Kosovo or not.

"Every day they cause conflicts, provoke our people, these are endless incursions into the north, talks, and persuasions of Quint Ambassadors that it had to be done since everyone up there was criminals," Vucic said and added that the problem was that someone did not want to to understand that he could not force it, but that we needed each other.

As he pointed out, Serbia was committed to dialogue and would fulfill its promise, and "what we said we wouldn't do, of course, we won't do", Vucic emphasized.

"You heard the statement of the Italian ambassador who said that Vucic had made it clear what the red lines were," the Serbian president said, adding that he was fundamentally not optimistic about the upcoming negotiations.