Serbia wants to keep the peace and protect its interests, territory and the rights of the Serbian people, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday.

Vucic told the Serbian public broadcaster RTS that the main goal is “preserving peace and stability because that means that Serbian children have a future”. “Keeping the peace is better than making mistakes,” the Serbian President said.

Vucic said he still hasn’t come up with a concrete solution for the Kosovo issue, adding that one of his main goals is protecting the Serbian people there. “The definition of a state is its territory, population, military and police and we only have the population on our side in parts of Kosovo. Our territory has been defined by Western powers,” he said.

Asked about the views of Germany and the US on a possible separation of the sides in Kosovo, Vucic said those two countries had already defined Serbia’s borders.

The President voiced doubts about a possible solution but added that Serbia’s institutions have to continue talking with Pristina. He called the population of Serbia to show calm and tolerance.