Vuciq withdraws after the military provocations: Serbia is preparing for war

Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq has said late Friday that Serbia “is not preparing for war” with Kosovo, following Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti's claims, that the Serbian state sent its army “a few metres” near the border with the neighbouring country Thursday.

Serbia will not enter the war, it will wait for the moment for its own political action”, Vuciq told Serbian television Prva on Friday.

On Thursday shortly before midnight, Kurti said Serbia's military specialised “units have been observed only a few metresFar removed from border with Kosovo” and published, as claimed, their view.

Vuciq said those images “are from the ground security zone”.

“Kurti wants something to happen for the US to intervene against Serbia”, Vuciq said.

Kosovo and Serbia share a long border line of about 400km.

Earlier in the day, US Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia James O'Brien said the United States is monitoring the Serbian Army's movements close to the border with Kosovo, and that it has suggested that Serbia use of force would be unacceptable.

“In Serbia, [Serbia's president, Aleksandar] Vuciq well knows that any use of force against Kosovo would be unacceptable, it would be considered risking NATO forces, which are there to protect the population, Albanians and Serbs. He has said that there will be no use of force”, O'Brien said.

Meanwhile, the peacekeeping mission NATO in Kosovo, KFOR, free Europe Radio said Friday The security situation in Kosovo is peaceful, but fragile “, and urged Kosovo and Serbia to refrain from escalating and divisive rhetoric.

Vuchy with blackmail language: If Kosovo is accepted, Serbia will withdraw from Council of Europe

Serbia's President Aleksandar Vuciq has said tonight that Serbia's release from the Council of Europe ( The KiE is one of the possibilities if Kosovo is accepted into that international organisation.

“You go with this and then we will see whether Serbia will stay at the Council of Europe or not”, Vuciq told TV Prva after the KiE confirmed that Kosovo's candidacy will be on the agenda at the end of March.

Asked whether this is one of the options that if Kosovo is accepted in the Council of Europe, Vuciq once again confirmed that it is certainly “one of the options”.

You will not find out before you do (accept Kosovo to the Council of Europe), so we will see. We will see, you will probably like Pristina (Kosovo) at the Council of Europe more than Belgrade and Serbia”, he said.

This would be Serbia's de facto expulsion... We have always had a lyrical attitude”, the Serbian president said.

We remember that the Council of Europe has confirmed that on March 27th, at the assembly of the Parliamentary Assembly's Commission for Policy and Democracy will be in turn the Kosovo report.

Vuciq called National Security session

Vucinqi called a Serbia National Security session for Saturday because of a major armed attack in the Russian capital, Moscow, earlier in the evening.

“has several reasons for this”, Vuciq told Prva TV.

Vuciq also said that in addition to the “measures for the absolute protection of Serbia's security, he will propose several new provisions”.

The hearing has been announced to be held a day later, March 23rd.

At least 40 people were killed and more than 100 injured after armed attackers shot a concert hall in the suburb of Moscow, Russian authorities said.

According to them, armed men opened fire at the Crocus City concert hall in Krasnogorsk, near Moscow, Friday evening.

Several successive blasts were reported, too.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called on the international community to condemn, as said, “this bloody terrorist attack”.