Vucic: We seek EU's urgent response, Serbia won't accept a policy of fait accompli

The meeting of the Council for National Security, chaired by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, was held on Tuesday in Belgrade. The main topic was the current events in Kosovo and Metohija, after Pristina's latest moves to deploy special Rosu units at the Jarinje and Brnjak administrative crossings.

President Vucic first explained that during the session, the participants analyzed the situation in the Serbian Army and the police and considered what we should do to strengthen our capacities in terms of deterring any threat of a potential terrorist attack.

Vucic said that Serbia would consider measures against Priština in the next few days and then come out with them.

"We want to show good will and leave Pristina some time to change their bad decisions; if not, we will take measures to protect Serbia," Vucic said after the meeting of the Council for National Security.

He said that he informed the Quint members about that, as well as EU's representatives.

"I told them everything to their faces. Serbia will not accept a policy of fait accompli in order for someone's criminal action to get legal justification and be legitimized, and you achieve do whatever you want with violence - but without Serbia's stamp of approval. Compromise can be reached on everything, but there will be no humiliating Serbia. A huge salute to the Serb heroes who endured the terror all night, I thank them very much for guarding their homes," said Vucic, referring to Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija.

He stressed that NATO must react to physical violence, and if NATO does not react, he said that this does not mean that there will be more pogroms of our population, like (operations) Storm and Flash.

"We have concluded that Serbia insists on preserving peace and full security for the Serb population in Kosovo and Metohija.

This morning, in conversation with representatives of the most powerful countries, I received a proposal on what a compromise solution should look like, which I rejected because it humiliates Serbia," revealed the president.

He added that Serbia will not agree to Pristina's low-grade, criminal tricks, the only way is withdraw all troops in Kosovo and Metohija, return to the previous situation and then talk in Brussels. He added that he was asking for an urgent answer from the EU as to whether or not the Brussels agreement exists, and when the Community of Serb Municipalities would be formed.

"We are asking for an urgent answer from the EU as to whether or not the Brussels agreement exists, and their silence and a lack of response would be a clear sign that this agreement no longer exists and that there is no support for the Community of Serb Municipalities," Vucic said.

"We call on the EU, the US and Great Britain for Pristina to abolish the illegal verdict against Ivan Todosijevic, either they will do that, or it means Pristina has support for the expulsion of Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija, so we will also react differently," he said.

The session of the Council for National Security, which discussed the latest events in Kosovo and Metohija and the deployment of Rosu forces at the administrative crossings of Jarinje and Brnjak, started shortly after 10:00 am and lasted for more than two hours.

The Council was chaired by President of the Republic Aleksandar Vucic, and the meeting was attended by Ministers Nebojsa Stefanovic, Aleksandar Vulin, as well as Chief of the General Staff of the Serbian Army Milan Mojsilovic, and BIA Director Bratislav Gasic.

Council for National Security meeting

As the president announced yesterday, the meeting discussed the current situation and agreed on possible measures that Serbia would take, which he said would be economic and political, but above all economic.

Vucic said last night that Serbia will not allow Pristina to humiliate and harass the Serb people in Kosovo and Metohija, and if it continues with unilateral actions like the one at administrative crossings, Belgrade will retaliate with measures that will be painful, primarily in the economic sense.

"Somebody in Europe must say whether the Brussels agreement exists or not. We will have to get that answer very quickly, because our patience is not limitless. Enough is enough, they've been stringing us along for 3,076 days, and we are taking that because of peace and everything else, even though there is no ZSO yet. If for the other side there is no Brussels agreement, then there is none for us either," Vucic said in his address to the public.

He claimed that the prime minister of self-proclaimed Kosovo, Albin Kurti, invented a rule affecting (Serbian) license plates because he and his associates reckon that they will steal something and that someone will appear to offer Serbia and Serbs a compromise based on the principle, "we get half, you get half" of what has been stolen.

"We will not participate in that. If threats against property and life of citizens of Serb nationality continue, we will call on NATO and KFOR to protect their lives and property. Also, everyone should know that we will not allow the recurrence of the 2004 pogrom," Vucic stressed.

(Telegraf.rs)