Vucic: We will not support UN membership for Kosovo

BELGRADE - Speaking to reporters after a meeting with Swedish FM Tobias Billstrom in Belgrade, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said they had discussed the situation in Kosovo-Metohija and that he had reiterated Serbia's position that it would not support UN membership for Kosovo.

"We also discussed the situation in Kosovo-Metohija and, to avoid any dilemmas, I reiterated Serbia's positions that Serbia will meet the commitments it has undertaken but that it will not support Kosovo's membership in the UN and in specialised UN agencies and institutions, and that I have informed of this clearly all participants in the talks and the other side - Borrell, Lajcak, Scholz, Macron, Blinken and everyone around the world we have spoken with," Vucic said.

"Today is the tenth anniversary of the Brussels Agreement. You must form a Community of Serb Municipalities with substantial powers, and when you do that, Serbia, which has always kept its word - including after the Brussels Agreement - and will do so in the future, will do its part of the job," Vucic said in a message to Pristina.

"But there is no playing games with that, you must meet that commitment, and it is only after you have met it that we will do our part," he added.

As a sign of good will, we might do something unilaterally, but that has nothing to do with Pristina's obligation to fulfil agreements completely, he said.

"It is only after that that we will do all the other things because it is not a commitment undertaken in February or March this year or in November last year - it is a commitment that has existed since April 19, 2013," Vucic noted.