Vucic: I Expect Dialogue with Pristina to Continue in Two, Three Months

Aleksandar Vucic (Beta/Presidents press office/Dimitrije Goll)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Nov. 4 he believed a new round of talks with Pristina might begin soon, in two or three months.

"We want the dialogue to be serious and conducive to a compromise. Serbia is ready for compromises, but it is not, and will never be prepared to humiliate itself and its people - the people in Kosovo and Metohija, and the people at large. We have never made any extreme demands, or offered anything we knew no one would accept, and that's what we mean when we say 'compromise'," Vucic said at a press conference after a meeting with the U.S. State Department's special envoy for the Western Balkans, Matthew Palmer.

President Vucic stated that the Albanians and the international representatives who believed that Serbia could be pressured into accepting anything that might be contrary to its national interests were wrong, because something like that it's not possible.

Vucic described the meeting with Palmer as open and honest, adding that he was pleased with the content of the meeting.

The Serbian president also said it's common knowledge that views on Kosovo differed, but that he was grateful to Palmer for being ready to hear what Belgrade was thinking.