In an Assembly speech which lasted almost for two hours in Belgrade on Monday, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic presented a detailed report of Brussels’s negotiations on Kosovo and Metohija, calling for a compromise on the disputed territory.
“My job as the president of the Republic of Serbia […] is to tell people the truth, bitter, sometimes unpleasant,” said Vucic, allegedly referring to the general recognition of Kosovo’s 2008 self-proclaimed independence from Serbia.
“Many of those who know the truth, but won’t say it, would gladly wage war,” warned Vucic, reportedly alluding to Serbian nationalists’ radical stance on Kososvo, treating any compromise by the Serbian side as treason.
The Serbia President repeatedly urged to the Serbians to tighten their grip on the ‘reality’ of the disputed Kosovo and Metohija territories adding: “We are a people who do not really believe in reality and do not like reality. Until we don’t know it, we dream about it, and when it becomes known to us we underestimate it.”