After Meetings with Lajcak and Hill, Vucic Says Will Issue Statement on Kosovo in Next 72 Hours

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Serb representatives from Kosovo (BETAPHOTO/ DIMITRIJE GOLL)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced on Sept. 10, after meetings with the EU's special representative for the Western Balkans, Miroslav Lajcak, and U.S. Ambassador to Belgrade Christopher Hill, that he would address the public on the situation in Kosovo in the next 72 hours.

"I will talk about what Serbia is demanding, due to the essential and brutal attack on the Serbian population, primarily in the north of Kosovo and Metohija, and what it is that the so-called international community has not fulfilled, what it is that Serbia is asking for and what it is that Serbia will do," said Vucic.

He underscored that he had had "two-hour-long talks, separate and combined" with Lajcak and Hill. "It is to be expected that we will also go before the National Assembly with far-reaching and very important proposals sometime in October, we will have many important meetings, we must fight for Serbia's position in the world, seek allies," said Vucic. He added that Kosovo Premier Albin Kurti wanted "the destruction and persecution" of the Serbian people.

Lajcak earlier announced that he would visit Belgrade in order to prepare the next meeting within the dialogue on the normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina, which was also the reason for his visit to Pristina last week, where he said an agreement had been reached on a new round of dialogue between the chief negotiators of Belgrade and Pristina.