Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday that “the whole western world, with exceptions, considers Kosovo as a whole, sovereign, and indivisible territory,” Serbian media reports today.
This was the Serbian president’s reaction to German Chancellor Angela Merkel saying a day earlier she was “against changing borders in the Balkans.”
“She already did delimitation between us – by separating the whole of Kosovo from Serbia,” Vucic said, and the concept of “delimitation” with the Albanians that he has been advocating for recently.
“The whole western world, with exceptions, they all consider Kosovo to be an indivisible territory that belongs to the Albanians in Pristina,” he continued.
“And that’s why I was confused by the hysteria of some people in Serbia. Come on – Sonja Biserko, Sava Janjic and Rada Trajkovic have always been in favour of an independent Kosovo,” Vucic said, referring to an NGO activist from Belgrade and a Serbian Orthodox Church monk from the Decani monastery and President of the Kosovo based NGO European Movement and former deputy.
“But they stand for an Albanian independent Kosovo, and that’s why they fought against Serbia to gain something, and then some individuals in Serbia joined them.”
The president said he had been “brave enough” to “ask for something more for the Serbs and Serbia” from Angela Merkel, and Vladimir Putin, and Mike Pence, and Emmanuel Macron.
As for Merkel’s position, Vucic said it has been the same “for ten years now” – i.e., since Germany recognized Kosovo as independent.
Vucic added that he would meet with Kosovo President Hashim Thaci in Brussels in September.
He believes that it will not come to the agreement with Kosovo in two or three months.
Speaking of a meeting with Kosovo President Hashim Thaci in September, Vucic said it would be interesting, after all, to see “were we left off”.
