Vuciq: We will fight for Kosovo, but there is no lucky solution for us

Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic has pledged that he will fight “for Kosovo, but has warned there will be no lucky solution for Serbia.

It is not the president of Serbia's duty to deceive people. There will be efforts to resolve things over the next year, but it is not known whether to be elected”, Vucic has declared during an interview given Saturday (6 June) for Serbian television “Prva”.

Vucic stressed that it cannot be expected that major world powers will change its position on Kosovo's independence, nor that there is no change in borders with Kosovo.

Before us are six months of difficult political struggle for our national interests in Kosovo and Metohija and for the rights of our people there”, Vucic said.

Vucic said he expects from the European Union's special representative for Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, to visit Belgrade and Pristina, immediately after elections in Serbia, which will be held on 21 June.

I expect Lajcak to come to Belgrade immediately after the elections. There is no happy solution for us, whatever it may be, we cannot be especially satisfied. I can't lie to people. The work of the president or someone who does politics is not to deceive people”, he said.

Serbia's president has added that he also expects talks with Richard Green, the White House's special envoy for dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade.

“We will try to make (the result of negotiations between Kosovo and Serbia) a less unfavourable solution, but making it unrealistic is” concluded Vucic.

Dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia was interrupted at the end of 2018, when Kosovo imposed a 100 per cent tax. In April of this year, Kosovo had replaced the tax with the measure of reciprocity. But, the new Kosovo government, led by Avdullah Hoti, removed reciprocity and said it now expects Serbia to remove other obstacles so that the parties can return to the negotiating table.