Serbia’s Minister of Defense, Aleksandar Vulin, responded harshly to the statement of the German Foreign Minister, Sigmar Gabriel, who said that Serbia should recognize Kosovo as an independent and sovereign state if it wants to integrate into the EU.
“Minister Gabriel’s statement confirmed once again that Europe in a way is not interested to see Serbia’s progress and the fact that Serbia is a very successful, democratic society. If membership in Europe depended on these values, we would have been part of EU a long time ago, but it appears that only one thing is requested from it, and that is recognition of the independence of Kosovo and nothing more. Serbia will never recognize the independence of Kosovo, it will never do this as a condition to become part of EU,” Vulin said.