Vucic: Response to request for urgent UNSC session due in coming days

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday evening a response to Belgrade's request for an urgent UNSC session over open ethnic cleansing in Kosovo-Metohija was due in the coming days.

"I do not believe it (a session) will be approved," Vucic said on a Happy TV talk show, noting that nine of the 15 UNSC member states recognised the so-called Kosovo and that a decision in favour of holding an urgent session required nine votes in the UN body.

He said he had written personalised letters to leaders of the most influential EU member states and the UK, the US, China and Russia and that he would write more.

"You always think the people know, but what we have to do is to let them know and try to tell them we want peace and stability and that we do not want wars and that we did not create them," Vucic said.

He added that the most insidious ethnic cleansing was being carried out in Kosovo-Metohija to make life unbearable for Serbs who remained there.

"That is what is going on," Vucic said, noting that 12 per cent of Serbs had left Kosovo-Metohija.

"We are managing and fighting to deliver money to our people (following Pristina's ban on the Serbian dinar) and we have been successful so far," he said.

Vucic also said the political elites of Western countries would try to expedite a resolution of the Kosovo-Metohija issue due to the approaching US presidential elections and elections for the European Parliament.

He said European political elites were in a rush because green and left parties were expected to receive fewer votes.

"The West is also in a hurry because they are not quite sure Ukraine can defeat Russia," Vucic said.

He also said Serbia would never be a threat to any EU member state because it wanted to cooperate with countries in the bloc.

"Serbia is on the European path and wants to stay on it," Vucic said.