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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

In the service of citizens

Serbian people ask for respect and real dialogue, not imposition of solutions

Belgrade, 24 April 2023

President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic said today, after the holding of local elections in four municipalities in the north of Kosovo and Metohija, that the Serbian people have shown that they are asking for a completely different approach, primarily from the international community, which includes greater respect and real dialogue, and not the imposition of solutions.

In his address to the public, Vucic pointed out that the most important message to us and the world is that we do not have an essential dialogue, we do not talk, we just receive imposed papers that always benefit Pristina.

There are 1,345 more people in the voter list from 2023 than in the previous local elections. A total of 13 Serbs went to the polls, which is 0.029 percent of the votes, and a significantly smaller number of Albanians voted as compared to 2021, he pointed out.

According to him, the elections were held by dividing the voting into 13 containers, and nine Albanian and one Serbian candidate participated in them, who came and left the polling station accompanied by the Kosovo police.

The President said that at several polling stations not a single citizen voted, and that the candidate from Zvecani, Sladjana Pantovic, won a total of five votes, one of which is Albanian.

He said that neither the OSCE, nor the European Monitoring Mission, monitored the elections in the north of Kosovo and Metohija.

Summarising the results of yesterday's elections, Vucic said that, firstly, it was the election debacle of Kurti and the Quint, as well as all those who said that the problem is in criminal Serbian structures in the north of Kosovo and Metohija.

Secondly, this is a historic result, because this has never happened on European soil, to organise elections for one side only, and then the result to be 0.029 percent of those who went to the polls, the President emphasised.

Thirdly, Vucic pointed out that the Serbian people showed responsibility and discipline, whereby they behaved not only nationally consciously, but also as responsible people, ready to show their will to oppose the occupation.

According to him, what is perhaps the most important message, both for us and the whole world, is that there is no essential dialogue.

We do not talk, we receive imposed papers that are always in favour of the Albanian side because the Quint supports them, the President underlined.

He said that he still has not decided whether he will go to Brussels on 2 May, but that he will probably do so in order to listen to the Serbian management team.

They are waiting for a proposal from the government of “Kosovo” on the Community of Serb Municipalities. They did not even deign to read the basic documents and learn how that process goes, Vucic said and underlined that a proposal by the Serbian management team is being awaited, not a proposal by the government of so-called Kosovo.

According to him, the Community of Serb Municipalities can only be formed in line with the principles he signed in 2015, and not by playing fairy tales with us about the Kosovo constitution and everything else.

Vucic reiterated that special forces should withdraw from the north of Kosovo and Metohija, pointing out that the elections in this part of the province went peacefully because the Serbs agreed so.

The President stated that Serbia does not need a conflict with NATO because it cannot win that conflict, but that our country is not in a position to allow new attacks and humiliations.

Our conclusion is that we will protect the position of our people, we will understand messages of the peaceful political uprising of the Serbs from the north of Kosovo and Metohija. We will respect the Constitution of Serbia, but we will insist on a real dialogue, Vucic stated and added that Serbia will not accept a “take-it-or-leave-it” dialogue.

The President expressed his fear that the current situation in Kosovo and Metohija is only a prelude to a much deeper crisis.

He stated that our country will vote against the membership of so-called Kosovo in the Council of Europe.