Vucic to call election on March 4,following visit to Washington

Vucic party Steering Committee (Beta/Milos Miskov)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced on Feb. 29 that he would call a general election on March 4, the same day that he comes back from Washington.

The president said in an interview with the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation (RTS) that he would try to win international support at his upcoming meetings in Washington, the major theme of which would be Serbia's position on Kosovo, Republika Srpska and the Serbian Orthodox Church.

"The Americans are always against the Serbian Orthodox Church. Europeans will play dumb and ask for as little discussion as possible on the Serbian people and ethnicity... We are not looking for a Greater Serbia. What we want is for the Serbs to have all of the rights that other peoples (in countries where they constitute minorities) have, like the Albanians in Northern Macedonia for example," Vucic explained.

The Serbian president also said that he expected representatives of the international community to say that Bosnian presidency member Milorad Dodik was responsible for the latest crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

"What I will tell them is that Republika Srpska is a constitutional category," Vucic said, adding that he would also ask what Serbia had done to be targetted.

Speaking on the migrant crisis that might break out if Turkey decides to open its borders for the two million refugees that it has hosting, Vucic said that nearly 900,000 refugees had already passed through Serbia.