Miletic: Sincere relations between Vucic and Macron guarantee changed image to Serbia

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The director of the Center for the Study of Globalization, Dejan Miletic, said today that with the visit of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to France Serbia took an important step in the right direction, and added that relations between Vucic and French President Emmanuel Macron, sincere and fill of trust, guarantee a changed image in the coming challenges that Serbia will face.

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He assessed for Tanjug that France will insist on true values and facts when it comes to Serbia, rather than creating an atmosphere that supports the regime of Prime Minister of Pristina's provisional institutions Albin Kurti, or a declaration about genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Miletic believes that with this official visit to France, Serbia has shown that it is not a country "born yesterday," that it has its own history and traditional relations, but also that it is clear and strong enough to be able to take certain steps and oppose lies and injustice in the right way, through diplomatic struggle.

"Here we are talking about political consequences, also the economic elements in strengthening cooperation between France and Serbia are an even bigger argument to give pause to those countries that are hostile to our people and state, and for them to think once again whether it is in their interest to be confrontational and what their future in the Western Balkans will be if they try to use lies to act in anti-Serb ways," he said.

According to him, the visit to France was successful for Serbia, but it will be even more successful if real diplomatic results are achieved in terms of a decision not to allow Pristina to join the Council of Europe (CoE).

"I think it's a natural thing... that the basic point, also from some of the demands from CoE's three points, and from what is in the Ohrid agreement and what Macron constantly has in mind, is that the ZSO (Community of Serb Municipalities in Kosovo and Metohija) is the first point. It has not been met and I don't see any element that would allow Pristina to be a part of the CoE," Miletic assessed.

When it comes to the vote regarding a resolution on Srebrenica in the UN General Assembly, that could take place on April 27, Miletic said that as long as it is not put on the agenda of the UN, he personally believes that it will not "happen".

He believes it is "total nonsense in a situation where mass killings of Palestinians, extraordinary destruction are taking place in the Gaza Strip, as well as when, 30 years after the crime in Srebrenica, they are now trying to 'revive' anti-Serb narratives in Bosnia and Herzegovina."

"Who in the world is interested in that story in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the tension over such things except those who would like to divert the public's attention from Gaza, advocating in favor of some quasi-truth. That cannot be true, the Serb people will never accept that they were genocidal because neither are there the elements (of genocide) nor the intent. It would represent a rift between Bosniaks and Serbs, who have a good perspective in joint cooperation and close relations," Miletic believes.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)