16 minutes agoVuciq and Zelensky chat for “invisibility” of Ukraine's borders
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)Serbia's President Aleksandar Vuciq said he has talked with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, about respecting Ukraine's territorial integrity, but also about the situation “in Kosovo and Metohija”. “We referred to the situation in Ukraine and Kosovo and Metohija. I stressed once again that Serbia respects Ukraine's territorial integrity, which it [...] has taken on.
Serbia's President Aleksandar Vuciq said he has talked with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, about respecting Ukraine's territorial integrity, but also about the situation “in Kosovo and Metohija”.
We referred to the situation in Ukraine and Kosovo and Metohija. I stressed once again that Serbia respects Ukraine's territorial integrity, which we have clearly said since the start of the” conflict, Vuciq wrote in a post in the Instagram.
Zelensky, meanwhile, said he had a “good chat for the United Nations Charter and for “the invisibility of the limit”.
“The common future of our states is in the common European home”, Zelensky wrote on the social X network, formerly known as Twitter.
The two leaders met in Athens after an informal dinner with officials from Western Balkan states, those of the European Union, Ukraine and Moldova.
Belgrade, Moscow's ally, has not imposed sanctions on Russia following the start of Ukraine's unprotested invasion last February.
However, Serbia has voted several UN resolutions that have condemned the Russian invasion.
Despite continued calls by the European Union and the United States, Serbia has not imposed sanctions on Russia. Vuciq has declared earlier that Serbia is paying “high price” for failing to impose sanctions on Russia.
Kosovo, although not recognised by Ukraine, has imposed sanctions on Russia and provided aid to Ukrainians, including the shelter of several journalists in this country.
In early August, Vuciq had warned that if Ukraine would recognise Kosovo “would lose everything in its power by day”.
This reaction by the Serbian president had come after Ukraine's ambassador to Serbia, Voldymyr Tolkach, declared on August 8th that more and more voices are growing in Ukrainian society for recognising Kosovo's independence, and that a certain number of MPs in the Ukraine Parliament are supporting the stance for possible recognition of Kosovo.
Between Kosovo and Kosovo, which has declared independence in 2008, which Serbia does not recognise and Ukraine, officials from Moscow have often drawn parallels.
In April 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin had compared Kosovo to the two separatist regions in Ukraine, Donjeck and Luhanscu, jointly known as Donbas.
These comparisons are named as <x0 differential” by officials in Kosovo.
