pain greece and portugal scare you. to post orders. well there's no obvious difference serbia is not in the same situation as the u. i'd say that some a you can trees haven't been honest enough they don't overspend and send fake budget reports to their partners many europeans were spoilt by their governments the e.u. exploited the whole world to provide a better life and huge welfare benefits for its citizens but now the reckoning is overdue there is a time to customs and a time to gather them you may enjoy a free ride for a while but one day you'll have to pay and now an employee you citizens are at a loss how come they no longer have an extra seven or eight hundred euros at hand how come there are no more social benefits free of charge accommodation electricity or natural gas the situation in serbia is different it would take a long time before the e.u. degenerated into the poverty they were in at the moment we don't really care about relations inside the e.u.

what we're looking for is new joint projects partners that could help percent in new markets and those who are eager to invest our economy there are seven million people in serbia and it's pretty easy for us to overcome the crisis because we've always been a hard working nation there's been little growth over the last fourteen years but it's not the e.u. that is to blame it's us we chose a government that couldn't care less about serbians in the future all it did was please the strongest in the land a small nation can be just as strong as a big one as long as it's united serbians a great people and i'm sure that serbia will benefit from its cooperation with the e.u. for years i was euro skeptic there are even more reasons to be one now and say why do we need europe now that it's in crisis but in fact they are our neighbors they have the best science and technology and that's where we obviously belong. and that's what the serbian government always. a strong focus on so basic session to

the e.u. what if it doesn't happen is there a plan b. . if you saw a little of what was right now we're not part of the over the last year i've been able to restore a lot of friendships with those who view serbia as a successor to yugoslavia i mean the arab world asia africa latin america and others they were very keen to revive our relations we do have a plan bate we enjoy excellent cooperation with russia which heavily invests into serbia we're also partners with china latin america the united arab emirates other countries of the arab world in israel joining the e.u. isn't a question of life and death rather it's a question of a better life because of that if i basically say no school is an alternative plan for so because it provides investment and loans and i don't see this is an alternative these two blessings are not mutually exclusive. do you mean that said

he has no need to choose between east and west unity the unique or the serbia will never choose between east and west it wants to be part of both this idea is nothing new it was suggested by the serbian socialists two centuries ago yes we are a slavic orthodox country but we have bordered by western europe and while that might not feel like our natural environment we have to deal with it of course we have longstanding friends with whom we share a common past a common language and religion but it won't do any good for serbia to look in one direction only sadly enough serbia russian relations have never been truly sincere because there were always people who thought they might be harmful to serbia i think that those who want us to look in only one direction don't have the interests of serbia at heart. so that those are just part of the let's go back to the course of the talks in brussels what i do know poison is said to have talked to you during this talks what did he tell you did he back the agreement. that.

we spent a lot of time discussing the current situation possible scenarios and steps that serbia might take president putin has never interfered in our internal affairs both he and the russian government are ready to help serbia but serbia is alone in this battle unfortunately when the talks started serbia decided to talk with bush deano within the e.u. framework and never asked for someone to stand up for its interests that's why quite often these days serbia has to face several opponents alone the representatives from the e.u. and prishtina often share the same stance sometimes they will bring documents to the table which they clearly drafted together so we're left in the minority but if anyone thought that to join the e.u. we'd be willing to make concessions or that it was just a question of time before we changed our minds sorely mistaken or not do with the previous government did as for russia it will support any stance that serbia takes

. russia has made it very clear that it will never recognize an independent kosovo and that means a lot to us it's one thing to be the only country that refuses to recognize kosovo and metohija it's a totally different thing when you are supported by other powerful countries that haven't recognized either of those involved include first and foremost russia and of course we also sought to resolve the issue of kosovo at the un security council when the last russian troops were pulling out of kosovo i was in the opposition and i realize that we have only nato troops to rely on in terms of security i still regret that a lot because i believe that things would have been totally different if russian forces they unfortunately this is only wishful thinking so serbia has to work with nato the only military power that can ensure the security of serbs and other non albanian ethnicities in kosovo we introduced a provision into our agreement under which nato was to prevent any military intervention from pristina in the area populated by serbs at least over the next

ten years. seven goes around happy with the brussels deal but this had been delegation insists that was the most valid great could get at this time why is it so important to solve this matter now do you think serbia could wait and get a better deal. time is not on the side of serbs in kosovo it's on the side of the albanians they enjoy overwhelming support the serbian population in kosovo is declining they've been living in these terrible conditions for thirteen years we have to convince them that this is the only possible solution at the moment my idea is to form a serbian autonomy that would be totally independent from prishtina they have an independent budget take care of their own security they have serbia nor enforcement serbian courts education and health care if we recognize kosovo's unique status and find a way to include. in our constitution they would then we would ask pristina to recognize

a unique status of the serbian community to recognize its right to function independently it's a defacto situation in northern kosovo right now but it's not legalized everyone to texas and we fear that it any moment albanian supported by nato another forces may gain control over northern kosovo the countries that have recognized kosovo so that prishtina has the right to control the northern territories the agreement signed in brussels will help us to legalize serbian autonomy and then kosovo will no longer be able to exercise its control over northern kosovo and over four serbian communities in the south i believe we can achieve this and that serbs in kosovo realise that. they don't want the credit that this doesn't mean that serb a has lost the corsa that existed before the born in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine for good. so this is

a very complicated question serbia will never lose kosovo but on the other hand i'm not the president in pristina this is painful but unfortunately there's nothing i can do about it it would certainly be willing to recognize course of us independence if you get autonomy in the north no no no. we can't be that selfish actually only a third of serbs who live in kosovo or in the north the other two thirds live in the south and nobody has ever cared about them the international community even russia is unaware of the serbs who live in the south of kosovo i always think of all the kosovo serbs and i try to ensure they get equal rights the issue of serbs in the north of the republic is just brazenly cut off from that of the serbs living in the south and the question remains open we can either leave them to the mercy of the or thirty's in prishtina or make the move to the north this is a very complicated issue you can't simply swap the north from recognition of kosovo

independence. in my view serbia should never recognize kosovo we should discuss this situation with our friends all over the world i had to write letters to the presidents of all countries which had not recognized kosovo's independence when the agreement was signed in brussels i had to explain to them that this didn't maint that we recognized kosovo's independence and at that time albanians along with their western allies began pressuring those states saying look serbia has recognized kosovo and so should you. that we have numerous difficulties and a lot of work to do in regard of this matter several days ago i visited turkey and spoke openly to our turkish friends i said you've recognized kosovo's independence you even hard to be the first to do so but now you should stop insisting that other muslim countries do the saying this isn't a nice thing to do this will impact of relations of serbia cooperates with both of those who have and who haven't recognized kosovo's independence but we don't want

our friends who have taken this step to try and expand the list we don't want kosovo to use it in this state who bid with the u.n. general assembly. when we spoke a year ago most korean told me you would respect the will of the people when deciding on close of a status are you considering holding address random on this issue thus almost pulled the book. but we first have to pick the right time for a referendum and decide what exactly we should us the people thank you very much thank you. but i'll talk about language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports so i'm likely to put the no i will leave them to stay current to

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