"Kosovo compromise, and referendum, still far away"

"Kosovo compromise, and referendum, still far away"

"Some mind me saying that I will not be making a decision on the solution for Kosovo and Metohija without asking the citizens, and claim I would ask them in order to hide behind them, use them as a fig leaf," Vucic said.

"I never hide. I did not hide when we had to reduce salaries and pensions to recover the country and save it from bankruptcy. I did not hide and I will not hide when we are increasing salaries and pensions, because we healed the system and showed that we are responsible and serious, unlike some before us," he said.

Vucic added that his policy will not be to remain silent in the face of "someone destroying crosses and churches, declaring independence, the International Court of Justice deciding, on our request, that independence had been declared legally."

"I will not do it. There is nothing nice about Kosovo that we can get and offer to the people," he stressed.

Vucic said he would "go before the people, who will make a decision about their future."

"People must be informed about all the consequences of one, other, or a third option. People should say what they want," Vucic said.

Speaking to reporters after the exercise, Vucic also said that a referendum will certainly be organized - once there is something to offer to the people.

But at this time there is no such thing, so a referendum on Kosovo would make no sense, he said.

"We must arrive at some plan that certainly must not be humiliating to Serbia, that would mean something to the Serbs, and that means - to arrive at a compromise," the president said, and concluded:

"A referendum will certainly take place once we know we can count on a compromise solution. Otherwise it will not, and right now we are still far away from that."