Vucic: There is no kind of agreement related to use of Serbian dinar in Kosovo and Metohija

Postanska Stedionica bank branch in northern Kosovo and Metohija; Photo: Telegraf

President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic said today after a ceremony to mark the beginning of works to build a new factory of the company JFE Shoji SERBIA, that there is no agreement regarding the use of the Serbian dinar in Kosovo and Metohija, because the demand is that Serbia abolishes its own currency in its own territory.

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"I have no expectations. What I said is something with far-reaching consequences, and I will talk about it in more detail on Friday. There is no agreement on the dinar issue, you are asking us to agree to abolish our own currency in our own territory. We will not and we cannot," Vucic said in response to a journalist's asking about the Brussels agreement, and if there has been any progress when it comes to the status of the dinar in Kosovo and Metohija.

Vucic added that the Europeans (EU) can do it by force, together with Pristina (authorities), but that Serbia will find a way to deliver money to its people.

"No problem, we will struggle, our people will struggle, but you will not be able to say that there has been an agreement," he said.

Vucic added that it changes the entire game, going forward.

"I'm just waiting for them, to see this regarding the Council of Europe, and then they will have to face the fact that I will reveal to the whole world how and in what ways they lied and deceived Serbia and what they did against Serbia - not the ones in Pristina, but these Westerners who had presented themselves as honest brokers and honest mediators," he said.

Regarding the upcoming discussion in the Council of Europe (CoE) about so called Kosovo's bid to join, he said that "it will be interesting" - but that on Friday, when he returns from Brussels, he will speak about everything.

"About a lot of things, and then I will present information about various issues, that many will be surprised by. Both regarding corruption and crime, but also EU integration, relations with Pristina, about everything that is happening in the Serb Republic (Serb entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina), Bosnia and Herzegovina as it concerns the Serb people. I am preparing for Friday," the president said, in response to a journalist's question to comment on the upcoming debate in the Council of Europe.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)