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Serbia requests urgent session of UN Security Council

Belgrade, 15 December 2018

President Aleksandar Vucic said that Serbia, following an unlawful decision to form the Kosovo army, requested the scheduling of an urgent session of the UN Security Council.

Last night, in an extraordinary address to the citizens, the Serbian President announced that Belgrade would not participate in the dialogue until Pristina withdraws all its decisions on taxes, and told Serbian people in Kosovo-Metohija that Serbia would not give up.

As we concluded that all that Kosovo authorities did is contrary to international law, the spirit of dialogue and their internal illegal regulations, that they jeopardised peace and security throughout the region, Serbia requested that an urgent session of the UN Security Council be held. I am ready to participate as a president personally in its work, Vucic said.

He announced that Serbia would closely monitor everything that is happening in Kosovo-Metohija and will wait for Pristina to abolish taxes.

We are not interested in whether the fee will be 10, 25, or 1,700 percent. We are no longer interested in what new measures will be made. They do not understand that they crossed the threshold. They will have to pull everything, return everything to the previous state, that no taxes will be.

Vucic told the Serbian people in Kosovo that he knows how difficult these days are for them.

They are not any easier for us. I am calm because we have done everything to preserve peace, the President said.

He said that Serbia will attend all regional meetings, will always discuss the future preservation of peace, but will not accept new starting positions in which it will not be equal.

It is the only policy that Serbia can take. Serbia will pursue a policy of peace and respect for all, he stressed, and expressed gratitude to all who acted rationally and sensibly, especially friends in Moscow and Beijing.

The President said that he received a message from the Russian state leadership, to whom he is very grateful for, adding that he also talked with the Chinese ambassador.

He expressed his gratitude to the Cypriot President for being remarkable and very honest at the EU session, as well as countries that did not recognise Kosovo, but also on the reaction of the Hungarian state and the NATO Secretary General, who reacted in a correct manner and who understood well what kind of the dangers such a decision can bring.