Vucic: Meeting with int'l envoys perhaps toughest to date

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday a Belgrade meeting on the Kosovo-Metohija issue with five international envoys had been very difficult - perhaps the toughest to date.

Vucic met with EU special representative Miroslav Lajcak, US special Western Balkans envoy Gabriel Escobar, the foreign policy aides of the French president and the German chancellor, Emmanuel Bonne and Jens Plotner, and the diplomatic adviser to the Italian PM, Francesco Talo.

"We had an open and serious discussion, and what we agree on is that a frozen conflict is no solution because it is only a matter of time when someone will unfreeze it and when irresponsible individuals will destroy peace in the whole Western Balkans," Vucic told reporters after the meeting.

He noted that, as president of Serbia, he had unequivocally been presented with problems and challenges Serbia would face in case it failed to agree to a proposed plan for Kosovo-Metohija.

"We requested from Lajcak and the representatives of the US, Germany, France and Italy to help us all overcome the turbulence we are facing in Kosovo-Metohija. We believe it is high time a Community of Serb Municipalities, which was not only promised but also signed up to ten years ago, was formed. It is a matter of urgency, because only after that will dialogue, a return (of Kosovo-Metohija Serbs) to (Pristina's) institutions and some kind of normalisation of the situation be possible," Vucic said.