Vucic: Deal possible soon if Kurti gives up on secessionist intentions

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday a deal with Pristina would be achievable as early as in two days - rather than within the next few months - if Pristina's PM Albin Kurti gave up on secessionist intentions.

Vucic said this to Serbian reporters in Davos after being asked to comment on Kurti's statement that an agreement between Belgrade and Pristina could be reached within the next few months.

When asked about his take on a new European Parliament resolution calling for alignment of Serbia's foreign policy with the EU, Vucic responded he was less interested in that issue than in a section of the document that said the so-called Kosovo was independent and that that was an irreversible process, or a section condemning any secessionist rhetoric and calling for condemnation of all instigators of secessionism.

Those who have instigated secession are the ones talking about secession in the EP paper, he said.

"They are the ones who are secessionists, they have carried out a violent secession of a part of our territory. How far can that brazenness go? ...They want us to condemn those supporting secession, I guess, of parts of Kosovo-Metohija and Bosnia and Herzegovina. They have trampled the UN Charter, they bombed a country and carried out a violent secession," Vucic said.