PM: We did all we could, it's now up to EU

PM: We did all we could, it's now up to EU

"All that was in our hands - starting with the dialogue with the Albanians, to the successful completion of the screenings, with all the economic and political reforms that have attracted Brussels' support - we have done. Brussels has to decide whether it wants Serbia in Europe. (Federica) Mogherini's words in Belgrade were encouraging," Vucic told the Belgrade-based daily Politika, commenting on the EU foreign policy chief's recent statement that "the first chapters could be opened this year."

Commenting on the journalist's remark that "it seems that nothing the government does reforms-wise is enough, although Brussels praises it," while "the only important thing is the Brussels agreement, with the pressure to implement it applied only on Belgrade," Vucic said that he "never asked European officials for anything more that what Serbia deserves."

"You know I do not like to whine, I never cried on the shoulder of European officials seeking for Serbia something more than it deserved. It is true, however, that most of the pressure in relation to the dialogue with the Albanians goes to our side. The future is important and worth the effort of each of us, but that does not mean that we cannot see and often feel the bias of individual European countries," said Vucic.

As for announcements in Pristina, "made after Mogherini left" that "a resolution on genocide of Serbia in Kosovo" would be passed, Vucic said that the idea came out of Hashim Thaci's and other relevant subjects' fear over the formation of a special court, which he said should deal "with people in Kosovo and Metohija who have committed crimes."

"If they attempt to adopt anything of that kind in the Kosovo parliament and miraculously find a majority to support it, I do not know how they intend to talk to us after that," said he.

Vucic also stated that he "asked all international officials, including Mogherini, about the double standards," and revealed that he "received no response."

"I respect Albania, I have fair relations with Mr. Rama, but I said that if I drew a map of Greater Serbia on the wall of my father's house, that would have been be a big story on CNN. Serbia would have been denounced. When it comes to the case with with the Greater Albania map, there was not a word of condemnation of what happened in Albania. It speaks to me about the double standards," said Vucic.

According to him, "many European officials and some ambassadors have no answer to this."

"They, 'say you're right'. All one can do is smile. It is an indicator of how much more we need to work do in order to have enough strength to improve the position of Serbia," concluded Vucic.