russia responds to western like you say since he's been carrying out all dirty cyber activity. straighted propaganda campaign. america holds its breath awaiting the outcome in the common a case the supreme court nominee accused of sexual misconduct or the scandal could have an unexpected impact on the looming midterm election. and amid an escalating trade war us president mike pence claims that china is trying to ensure the replacement of trump to beijing and of all the oil imports from america. is it for more on the latest headlines coming up next though sophie and co-hosts the president of serbia talking kosovo and the country's future

with the e.u. . well welcome to sophie and co i'm sophie shevardnadze and serbia's course of you integration is impeded once again by simmering tensions with cost of a possible grade going to go around that region in any danger well today i talk about that and more with the president of serbia alexander the. great enemy of the world twenty years after. the country is on a path towards the e.u. and cooperating with the transatlantic bloc but the question of the break believe problems of constable is still a long result will it keep the old in country. every integrating into europe

against serbia managed to find it become a project which is. still keeping traditional totally. present which is welcome to moscow great to have you on our program it's a first very pleased to have very pleased to be here and. i enjoy spending my time in moscow so you're here discussing a lot of things with good you seek his support and advice on costello he just came from the meeting with president putin what he had a wife we. discussed all important issues on the. political scene in the western balkans an entire region of south east southeast europe and also we discussed so we discussed or but that are all. issues that are political economic and just one sentence to use to say that.

we do have better and better economic relationship and. our trade exchange with rate trade turnover is growing last two or it was just three percent bigger than it went to sixteen this year it's going to be once again twenty percent more and. resigning we are doing the job in a very proper way without indoor economic cooperation and collaboration speaking about the most important political issues. we have always had that kind of support and. assistance there to save an endorsement in the most important issues with the most significant issues for serbia i felt very comfortable in terms of words on further support for serbia's territorial integrity which is not. only an issue of serbia which became an issue of minnesota states that were put in jeopardy because of you

know let's roll auctions. some other you know territories or people that are nations. let's go by point regarding that especially cause so it's always relevant it's always relevant but especially now it's been back in the news because you are seeking to mend ties with kosovo but you're saying it has to be a two way street you're in favor of the so-called land deal that would actually see kosovo divided on the think lines right now cristin i say no partition to any part of kosovo firstly i was not saying that we should do and i have never mentioned that the sort of partition. by and on like you've mentioned in your answer in the beginning there are still against it i mean yes russia supports you america isn't saying that it's serbia and kosovo find a mutual agreement will support it but european partners are saying dollars box so how healthy is it to actually try to mend ties with kosovo because you're trying to

do that as much as you can while your most important partners because you want to be part of the you are saying no no go on keep on fighting how else is it as a weird situation if you divide it in this way i want to find it and a slightly different way i would say it's a very complicated situation but at the same time we have a different agenda and some other researchers which is nato membership serbia. most probably very soon will be the only country in the region that is not aspiring nato membership and we don't hide that there are different reasons for that political attitude from serbian side including everything that's happened to our country and to all people that are not tonight and that's what we as difference between serbian all the others that's another difference that's you're you're in a very very special case and. you see you know the situation and most of the only.

people did on the side of people didn't say yes on the three or four on them but as a mother who cares about the referendum results don't go for it you know again they said the results were great even though less than fifty percent of people showed up they don't mind if i may say within that whatever most of the union agrees greece might agree on something we would support and that would be very important for them but you cannot undermine people's decision it cannot undermine people's real people in the balkans they expect respect as well as all the others they just expect normal appreciation. and they want to be heard and that's what i wanted to say speaking about syria russia. we're heard that's very important for us and we feel that we are respected. by our

colleagues were russian friends is my impression right when i say that you're probably first president in a long time who is actually open to mending ties with kosovo and you speak about it but you don't get much response from the cosas side you're you're right we sided brussels agreement that we fulfilled all are obligated to us from brussels of him and by the other side they had only one of the geisha. which. which was forty forty five percent of overall brussels agreement and that the legation was. foundation and establishment of circle military service who should association doesn't matter who called it they didn't do it they didn't do a single small step forward on this issue and it was tolerated by international community when i say international community it's

a no from reason for the western world this is nothing to that it would there were no remarks but we delivered absolutely everything on different issues regional police justice and traditionally issue telecommuter and many other issues they did nothing. of the k i went to fulfill it or not are going to make pressure on your guys to fulfill what they signed and you course signed together with us that paper. and then we got a response ok we'll speak about. general resolution of your problems ok let us speak about it we are open to speak about. from the very beginning i hope that some people in pristina as well as many people in brussels will do their best to reach a compromise and solution no i can tell you that i will always be ready to carry on

with the dialogue always be ready to negotiate on whatever you want but in the meantime we lost or trust and confidence in albania aside that they really want to reach any kind of compromise or solution because they were doing their best all the provocations and they were doing absolutely everything just to undermine all or affords and to instead of lowering of expectations of their people they were expanding there are three patients and you see that there is no for a total ground for possible when it went well anyway serbia will always be ready to continue to resume with the process of dialogue but i'm not expecting. very much result mr president we're going to take a show break right now when we're back we'll continue talking to alexandra would she have been president talking about service a session to the e.u.

and its relations with the united states stay with us. is a. secret indeed priests accused of sexually abusing children can get away with it quite literally i like to call this the geographic solution so what the bishop needs to do then he finds out that the priest is is a perpetrator is simply moved to a different spot were the previous standards not known highest ranks of the

catholic church conceal the accused priests from the police and justice so something that is as old as the eye and then i think you look at it just is not in . its path. or back with that xander through church serbian leader as you present you just mobilize serbian army because de coster a leader went to visit the area with the majority. because of the well is that it's it's a few people would say ok those guys wanted to visit one of the new york.

they really remained i understand why mobile that's there and yes they were coming there with. machine guns well we're fools and everything else and they don't have a right to come there with that kind of weaponry that was owed. verbal arrangement although there is a statement done by nato plus albania as a serbs after brussels agreement we made also in brussels that there were two preconditions if someone would like to bring let's say machine guns to the north of course or one and the most important precondition was still ease the consent of local sort of community it isn't asking them. any single sort of. about. saying yes to the visit of the tree and it's not about his visit

it's about weaponry his people were using. and that was another publication and they wanted you know to show that they were in charge that they can do it whenever they want and whatever they want of course to frighten the serbs was again that's what they wanted to do and they didn't. and the other precondition was consent of nato we don't know what it was doing but there was a concept of need there was not fulfilled and that's a cumulative precondition number one which was consent of sore people serbian people and they didn't have it at all that's why we needed to react otherwise they can conquer north of course or they can expel all or people and the everyone from western community would say or. most of them would say well ok it happens you know moshe live in peace and now we have borders in a way that we wanted serbia cannot agree on this so. i mean it was seemed to me our

job was just to sunder strong message that we would protect our people from the guys that would use heavy weaponry against our eyes and of course i think the message was received yes well heard you mentioned in the beginning that you are the only country in the region doesn't aspire to be part of nato but also you are a major still enjoy great relations twenty years after the bombings you do mutual exercises they conduct exercises on your territory and then when it comes down to it you just mentioned and we do the same exercises with russia absolutely absolutely when you claimed i was a major didn't do anything with this incident it's a nato controlled territory what do you what do you get in return when you copper it with nature this much you get it do you feel like you get in return as much as you would have liked to put yourself into our shoes. please we are not russia

we are not become true although we are the biggest of us and boko we are small country we have to protect our country we have to protect our people and we have to maintain peace tranquility and stability within the region we need to boost our economic development we need to attract more of investors we cannot say everything that we think to every one just cannot it's a different position or not as big as russia or not as strong as russia. we have to. keep the momentum of asking and truck trade or world trade center and over plus twenty percent of the original countries are within the us is russia was trying a. small portion of a turk we are situated that a lot of the world are the same time i don't think that that will exclude.

not only our friendship what's very close ties with russia who and i don't hide it as you know your because you were insisting from the very first moment of your interview. everything that i was saying about your opinion betray the height but it's you don't mention the fact that even in washington or in brussels or today in this language i'm saying. that we'll keep a very close ties with russia always we don't know what will happen in the future still don't know but. i think that our european partners will always understand serbia on or issue with russia i just have one last question or two about president trump because he's a very unconventional american leader i mean his views are the world and the way america should be are unlike the ones of his predecessors is not very sympathetic

towards e.u. i mean he's declaring terrorist wars in china our european union doesn't really like nato because he says like everyone should pay up not only america does that change anything for serbia i say or serbia's stance. you've invited him to come to serbia is that serbian wanted ransom to service or for anybody we serbs. they prefer no doubt trump than obama why. i don't know because serbs have always thought it was democrats fault and you'll notice that aggression and the insurgent always supported republican party resuming or else and. trump as you said is pretty much a coalition of them and you know only a few things about it is all that ticks almost nothing about his politics and the balkans but at least john bolton he. opened the doors for possible arrangement

between bill bit embarrassed and that's what we appreciate and that's slightly a change. of their politics would have to see a bit of what it will have to say i cannot assess it they cannot estimated some asking is that the russians were also excited about trump winning because well thought that republicans were better than democrats for russia and put him in trouble i could see out there on a personal level but then there's the establishment that wouldn't let him do anything and that's why i'm very i have very little rational approach so i'm not excited. about emotional toll or russian or bolton as i said to you we need to wait to see what is going to be the final result of their stances their position their attitude over serbia or. western balkans right mr president thank you very much for this insightful interview thank you very much and i was to tell you the truth. pretty much positively surprised with the knowledge

that you have shown and there are very few politicians in serbia that would. understand all the questions and all the issues and sure i'm just a cold thank you i love your country now we show the best of luck will love your country and research all the best to your country and we hope that. be able to preserve. the best possible solution between our two countries.

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