Vucic says Belgrade opposes frozen conflict, ready for dialogue with Pristina

NEWS 14.05.202113:08
Tanjug / Tanja Valič

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic spoke out on Friday against frozen conflicts and in favor of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue under European Union auspices.

We advocate the dialogue with Pristina under the auspices of Brussels,” he said after a meeting with his Slovenian counterpart Borut Pahor in Belgrade.

According to Vucic, the Serbian authorities were ready to continue the dialogue in May and will be ready in June. “We believe that no frozen conflict is good. We see how they end, someone unfreezes them every five years and they end with hundreds and hundreds of dead. We don’t need that,” Vucic told the news conference.

Vucic said that Serbia and Slovenia have different views of Kosovo but that Slovenia has an important role to play in the Western Balkans, adding that maintaining stability and peace is of crucial importance to Serbia. “Slovenia takes over the EU Presidency in July and it’s support is improtant to us on the European path,” he said.

Vucic said that the great powers were inventing principles to impose their will on Serbia. He said this was a case of brutal hypocrisy by some Western powers who invent principles when they need them “like the one about the inviolability of borders”. According to him, Serbia will stick to principles just as it did when it refused to recognize the annexation of the Crimea by Russia or other acts of seccession.