An idea of President Vucic to open “an internal dialogue” on Kosovo is “a bizarre act” stated to Fonet, former President of Serbia, Boris Tadic, pointing out that one cannot call for a dialogue on important topics such as identity and integrity of a state, without establishing a dialogue on all other topics.

Tadic also reminded that a mere word “dialogue” means showing respect for different opinions, assessing Vucic “is a wrong man to put Kosovo topic forward, since he has no critical attitude toward himself. “Kosovo topic, the topic of a dialogue, is not sustainable under the circumstance of having “a civic war and humiliating political opponents,” Tadic went on saying. He remained firm believing that a president of the state has no right and no mandate “to lose even what has not been lost in the war,” although he thinks a belief was created in Serbia, “it is so modern and pro-European to give up on something that was not lost in the war.” Asked to what extent, a sudden call for a dialogue on Kosovo could be a consequence of internationals’ hurry to solve this issue as soon as possible, Tadic replied that everybody is in a hurry. Tadic thinks that Vucic by recognizing the Kosovo legal system and at the same time “playing out a struggle for Kosovo,” brought “all into the situation that Kosovo would sooner or after become independent stated following inertia of political events in the international community.” “The fact is that Vucic personally has to take over the responsibility as “a president of a state” adding there would be no one “to burn Jarinje down” as a consequence of it, nor opposition would organize violent demonstrations with human causalities,” concluded Tadic. Meanwhile, Director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo, Marko Djuric, commenting on Tadic’s statements on Vucic and dialogue stated to RTS, that “Tadic’s shame shall live forever,” adding that the Serb people shall never forget that Kosovo declared independence during his mandate as well as detrimental agreements his regime made during the dialogue with Pristina. Minister of Defence, Aleksandar Vulin, also said it is “hypocritical of Tadic to give advises, he did not implement himself and to call for wisdom and courage he did not have when it was needed.”