Vucic: If Haradinaj Is Going to Washington for a Final Agreement He Might As Well Return on His Own Plane

Aleksandar Vucic (FOTOBETA/Milan Obradovic)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Aug. 20 that if former Kosovo premier Ramush Haradinaj's reason for going to Washington was a final agreement, "he can immediately return to his plane and not travel anywhere at all."

"We are going to Washington to discuss subjects that we have already discussed. It is not a problem for us to discuss each subject. If we are supposed to talk about [Kosovo's] status with everything being the way they imagined it, which is that they get everything and we get nothing and then we get to recognize them and then they supposedly recognize us - this isn't happening," Vucic told Pink TV.

Former Kosovo premier and leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj said on Aug. 20 that he could not rule out  that at a meeting of Kosovo's and Serbia's delegations in Washington on Sept. 2 a final agreement on mutual recognition within existing borders would be reached.

"This is not impossible and Serbia and Kosovo need to give an epilogue to a mutual agreement, Haradinaj told Radio Free Europe's radio program in Albanian, and said that he would be going to the White House to achieve an agreement on mutual recognition.