Vucic: West should do more than issue statement on Kurti's vote ban

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday he believed the West would do more than issue a statement over Pristina PM Albin Kurti's decision to ban Kosovo-Metohija Serbs from voting in the December 17 Serbian elections.

"You would have to be politically blind to not see what Kurti is doing," Vucic, who had predicted the decision, said in a response to a question from reporters.

"As I have told NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, we will wait to see if they will even issue a statement in which they will say that this is contrary to democratic principles," Vucic said, noting that even a statement was in doubt but that it remained to be seen whether one would be issued.

"There is one set of rules for Serbs and another for ethnic Albanians when it comes to the attitude of the powers that assisted the birth of the so-called Kosovo, and what remains for us to do is fight for the preservation of international order and for our country and its preservation," Vucic said.

He added that the positions of the five EU member states that did not recognise the so-called Kosovo were firm and noted that he was confident they would not change.