Vuciq: I cannot present the entire European plan

The goal is to stand before you and the citizens and honestly and to share what lies ahead and what we are facing, Vuciq said in the Assembly.

On February 2nd, the Serbian Parliament is debating the Government's Belgrade report regarding negotiations with Kosovo.

The plenary session is under way after Serbia's president has accepted the European Union proposal for normalising relations with Kosovo.

Vuciq said he cannot show the entire European plan to the Parliament, but only the worst parts for Serbia.

The most important thing is that the plan is the political framework, the moment at which everything” happens, Vuciq said.

The Serbian president said the team of European and American diplomats, with whom he has talked in Belgrade on January 20th, has told him there are huge reservations to the key issue.

“There are also good things in the plan; I will not talk about them”, he added.

The EU proposal, or as it is known as the Franco-German plan, is also supported by the United States.

The plan has not been made public, but it has been presented to the parties.

In that document, in which Free Europe Radio had access earlier, mutual recognition or membership of Kosovo in the United Nations is not mentioned in an experimental manner.

But the document mentions the support the parties must provide each other in the process of European integrations. Also, Serbia is urged not to undermine Kosovo's membership in international organisations.

The Serbian leader confirmed that 90 percent of what has been made public for the contents of the plan is accurate.

“at point 4, in the second paragraph, it is written that Serbia will not oppose Kosovo's membership in any international organisation”, he said.

Vuciq said Serbia's policy will be preserving peace and stability at any cost.
Let us refrain from responding to provocations unless people's lives and properties are threatened, he stressed.

He also cited security for Serbs in Kosovo and said Belgrade would insist, as he said, on forming the Serb majority-run Asociation and municipalities.

Kosovo and Serbia hold talks with EU mediation since 2011. The process is aimed at fully normalising reports through a final, legally binding agreement. Kosovo wants this agreement to include mutual recognition as Serbia insists on a compromise solution without specifying what compromise it is about.