Serbia’s Vucic: No changes of course due to one’s whish

NEWS 22.05.201812:41
Tanjug/Dragan Kujundžić

Aleksandar Vucic, the President of Serbia, said on Tuesday his country was firmly on the European path with a full respect of Russia and China and that Belgrade would not change its policy according to a wish of any politician.

  Referring to an exchange of statements following the words of Sem Fabrizi, the chief of the EU delegation to Serbia, that Kosovo was the main condition for Belgrade’s EU membership, Vucic said there would not be any change in Belgrade’s foreign policy.

“There is no fear that Serbia will change its foreign policy. Who wants to change the course has first to change me and the majority in the parliament, he said, speaking to Serbia’s media in Baku where he is on a two-day state visit.

Fabrizi’s statement prompted Serbia’s Defence Minister to say that if that was the case, his country should reconsider changes in its foreign policy’s priorities.

The issue continued to occupy politicians with the Prime Minister Ana Brnabic and the Minister for European Integration Jadranka Joksimovic both saying Serbia would not change its foreign policy priority.

Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic also said that the EU path remained “one of the country’s priorities, but not at any cost.”

Vucic said he saw nothing disputable in Fabrizi’s statement. “Whether we like it or not… but we knew that the Kosovo problem is the key stumbling block to the European road. So, I haven’t seen anything controversial in his words,” Vucic told reporters.