Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić after a meeting with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said their conversation in Berlin was not easy but he was glad the German government was interested in talking with Serbia, MIA’s Belgrade correspondent reports.
“Our position is difficult, terribly complicated, even more so after the statements given by President Putin,” President Vučić told reporters in Berlin.
“I will talk about all this tomorrow. I am afraid of everything that follows,” he said. Vučić also said “we cannot choose and change Germany,” and that if anyone thought Serbia was going to change Germany’s position on the Kosovo issue, “this will not happen.” He has said several times that in his address to the nation on Friday evening he would talk about the country’s problems and why “everyone’s interest in Serbia will become even greater.”
Vučić said he had talked with Baerbock about Serbia’s European future, the crisis in Ukraine, and the situation in Kosovo. He said parts of the conversation “were not easy.”
Asked if “Serbia will survive,” he replied, “Of course.”
“The question is not whether we will survive, but how we will survive – bruised or severely wounded,” the Serbian president said. Asked if a “pivotal moment in Serbian politics” was possible, he said he did not know what kind of pivotal moment this could be considering “Serbia is on the European path.”
The President of Serbia on Wednesday also met with the EU Special Representative for the Belgrade – Prishtina Dialogue Miroslav Lajčák and with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who also met with Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti in a separate meeting.
