Vucic: Community of Municipalities first, then discussions about all else

KURSUMLIJSKA BANJA - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday his visits to Brussels could only be tourist trips until a Community of Serb Municipalities was established in Kosovo-Metohija.

Vucic was speaking to reporters in Kursumlijska Banja, southern Serbia.

When asked to comment on a statement by EU foreign policy and security chief Josep Borrell, who said earlier in the day he would invite him and Pristina's PM Albin Kurti to Brussels to push a "plan", Vucic said:

"I have seen his statement - they can push whatever they want but they must say what the point of that is. I have never avoided discussions about anything and about any issue, but a Community of Serb Municipalities must come before that," Vucic said.

"If you intend to invite me to Brussels to talk me into saying 'a Community of Serb Municipalities comes simultaneously with or after I do not know what, do not invite me. Invite me to come as a tourist, and I am not interested - I have been to Brussels 200 times," Vucic said in a message to facilitators of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.

"If you do invite me, (do so when you can) inform me that they (Pristina) have delivered on the Community of Serb Municipalities. Once they have delivered on that, I am coming to discuss everything else," Vucic added.