Vucevic:People's Movement to bring together all those wishing to preserve Serbia

BELGRADE - The People's Movement for the State will be large enough for everyone interested and it should bring together all people of good will who want to preserve Serbia amid the present circumstances, Defence Minister Milos Vucevic said on Thursday.

"The movement will also have a state-building character to show that Serbia is a free and sovereign country and that it will pursue a wise policy demonstrating that it can handle all difficulties and pressure with minimal consequences," Vucevic said in a statement to Tanjug.

Asked whether next weekend's unveiling of the movement was a signal of looming elections, Vucevic responded that local elections were definitely ahead but that the movement was the beginning of something that was yet to spread irrespective of any elections.

When asked if the Belgrade-Pristina talks were drawing to a close after EU foreign policy and security chief Josep Borrell said there would be no more discussions about a French-German proposal, Vucevic said Serbia stood by the position that it was ready to discuss the concept of the agreement but would not cross its red lines.

"A direct or indirect recognition of Kosovo-Metohija as independent is out of the question, as is a UN seat for Kosovo-Metohija, while everything else can be discussed," he said, adding that establishment of a Community of Serb Municipalities in line with principles from 2015, guaranteed by the Brussels Agreement and the EU, was the condition for further implementation of the agreement.