Serbian President, Aleksandar Vucic said Serbia takes the side of Spain, and that despite important differences in declarations of independence of Catalonia and Kosovo, Serbia has to face reality and look into future, FoNet news agency reported.

Vucic also said Kosovo is twice worse case than Catalonia.

“There are two important differences, one is that Catalonia illegally declared independence, but in line with the right to self-determination held some kind of referendum, while in Kosovo a referendum never took place, apart from a false one in 1991, Vucic said following the meeting with the President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik.

“Second, there is peace in Catalonia, and here you reached to that (independence) through aggression against a sovereign state,” Vucic added.

“However, today we have to face such real situation, because we have different reality, for what we are partly to blame, but also to blame pathological hypocrisy of all those who are passionately  defending the integrity of Spain now,” Vucic said.

Meanwhile, Dodik stated “Catalonia is an interesting case,” he has no definite stance on it, but it is needed to preserve the peace in Spain, Danas daily reported.