“For remain of the Serbs in Kosovo and our right to that territory, it would be dangerous if there is no internal dialogue and if we pretend not having any problems,” said former Editor-in-chief of the Serbian daily Politika and a journalist Ljiljana Smajlovic, RTV KIM reported.

Smajlovic, who also used to be the President of the Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) said Serbian society lacks debates on Kosovo. “I have no fear that this dialogue would have some hidden motives and that it is an impetus to get rid of Kosovo,” she said. Smajlovic thinks that the initiative of the President Aleksandar Vucic on internal dialogue on Kosovo would encourage citizens to start thinking how much Kosovo is important. “Any thinking of Kosovo, so many years since the NATO intervention, necessarily leads us to the conclusion that it was taken by force and no other country would allow it. At the same time, soldiers from many foreign countries passed dozens of thousands of kilometres in 1999 to wage a war for something that has no importance to them”. She also said there is certain obsession among Albanians over Aleksandar Vucic and they think that the Serbian President has pretension to set topics, priorities and frameworks, which according to her is exaggeration, adding that Albanians also think the situation is not great, so it is good to open Kosovo topic and to think about it. Smajlovic also underlined that political opponents of Aleksandar Vucic constantly point out that Vucic would betray Kosovo and that his intentions are the worst possible, however, when he asks them: “What to do with Kosovo?” none of them can come up with anything.