"Draw line today - or defend rest of Serbia later"

"Draw line today - or defend rest of Serbia later"

This was his reply when reporters asked about an open letter sent by the Serbian Orthodox bishop of Raska and Prizren, Teodosije, who warned that "a partition of territories" would lead to the expulsion of Serbs from the southern province, i.e., Kosovo and Metohija, and put the Serb cultural heritage there in danger.

Vucic noted that "the best answer to that is already contained in a journalistic question" - namely the one that asked "isn't what Bishop Teodosije is warning about already happening today." Vucic added that "world powers and foreign services have the same argument as to why they don't want ethnic borders."

"Something, surely, is better than nothing," the president said.

He accused "many others, especially his political opponents" of in reality wanting no solution for Kosovo.

"They want to be safer today, and tomorrow? What do they care...," Vucic went on.

"The essence," according to the president, is in his opponents seeing the issue of Kosovo as "the best ground on which to bring down his rule."

Vucic also said he would go public with a proposal for a solution - "if I can reach agreement with someone on something, since it has not been possible to reach it with Albanians."

"I will not answer in detail and thoroughly yet, but I will answer everyone in Serbia and around the world. I will unambiguously say which world powers and foreign services have the same argument. We don't want ethnic boundaries, but we want a Kosovo state, an Albanian state in Kosovo, to pay 650,000 euros to our Church. That we want, from this non-existent state," Vucic observed.

He also announced that he would talk about "all that" another time, and stressed that "unlike the others" he would not be washing his hands off the issue "in a Pilate-like manner."

At the same time, Vucic emphasized that "nobody will give us either a partition, or anything like it."

"They don't want to give us anything. They want to make it impossible for Serbia to succeed, to dedicate itself to its future," he said.

And his critics, he continued, "also want to be safer today - and what does anyone care if we will have a future, children."

"It's better to have nothing than to have something," Vucic said, channeling his critics.

The president also believes that "many before him had a much greater chance of doing something, but did nothing."

"They could have gotten a lot more, while today we almost have no chance of getting anything," Vucic said.