is often serbia the country is on a path towards the new and cooperating with the transatlantic dream but the question of the breakaway province of possible is still unresolved will it keep the golden country from every integrating into europe against serbia managed to become a part of the west while still keeping traditional tony's. 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 you seek his support and advise on costello you just came from the meeting with president putin what he had 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 i discussed or

but real. issues or political economic and just one sentence to you was to say that. we do have better and better economic relationship and. our trade exchange with trade turnover is growing last year it was just three percent bigger than it went to sixteen this year it's going to be once again twenty percent more and we're learning we're doing the job in a very proper way without indoor economic cooperation and collaboration speaking about . the most important political issues we have always got 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.

for their support for serbia's territorial integrity which was 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 as 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 this so-called land deal that would actually see kosovo divided on the think lines right now christiane i saying 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 or based on

the clause there was only one sentence that i have always been saying we need to reach we need to find a compromise in solution between serbs and albanians which means that it cannot be the case that all being is get everything the serbs got the thing again is again absolutely everything. that i've ever dreamed of the serbs got absolutely nothing. that was why that was over that was serbia's frost and the only position that we have never left then we faced response from different sides. russia was saying ok. if serbia greece or something because we consider serbia as a sovereign state you serbia has or something was supported which was very much in

accordance with or absolutely in accordance with international public law. and that's why we respected and appreciated that political attitude of president or to know russia very much on the other hand we've got a very clear response from several e.u. countries they were totally against it they were saying just to clear it up that. if that happens serbia will open the doors box on those balls about one of the changes and it was interesting green i totally disagree totally white how can we open pandora's box who opened those pandora's box in two thousand and eight accepting acknowledging and recognizing an independence of course or unilaterally proclaimed they were doing so. when they say to me ok we don't want to change the borders i really reply to them saying. it was it also

is a part of serbia there are no border changes no no no we accept the border changes that we did ten years ago but now you cannot do it even if you will the groove on that with your counterparts who are all being a counter parts then say where are the principles other any principles you can do it you can change or territory and we cannot do it it was not under a box that was open ten years ago but it is pandora's box that is going to be open well that's the lazy basing reopening box they mean serbs living in us and herzegovina or the albanian minority in macedonia when you say to them to that i said to them ok if you first of all we do support territorial integrity of bosnia we have never mentioned anything about it but. i speak about of course all you people firstly agreed then recognized social of want to know you are from former

yugoslavia from former yugoslavia am i right it happened in two thousand and six if you're a member in two thousand and eight you took a new recognize in independence of course or from serbia how did you derive that's right what was the way to to derive that right and that was not an opening of pandora's box and now it would be an opening of bollocks even though you've serbs and albanians would decide making such an arrangement that's the hypocrisy but like you've mentioned in your answer in the beginning there are still against it i mean yes russia supports you america is in 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 that it's

a weird situation if you divide it in this way i would define it and a slightly different way i would say it's a very complicated situation but at the same time we have different agenda or some other issues which is nato membership serbia. most probably very soon will be the only country in the region that has not aspiring nato membership and we don't hide that there are different reasons why that political attitude from serbian side including and with does happen to one country and to implement a man tonight and that's what we as difference between serbian all the others that's another difference that's you know you're in a very very special case and. you see you know the situation in most i don't know. people didn't decide people didn't say yes on that for on them but as a mother who cares about her and the results don't go for it you know yeah they

said the results were great even though less than fifty percent of people showed up they don't mind if i may say we think that whatever was said only angry is 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 serbia russia we are heard. that's very important for us and we feel that we are respected by over our colleagues were all russian friends is my impression right when i say that you 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 every fulfilled all orrible a geisha was from brussels agreement. or the other side they had only one of the geisha which. which was forty forty five percent of overall brussels agreement and that obligation was. foundation and establishment of so community 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 communities and your information 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. i said ok i went to fulfill it or not are you going to make pressure on your guys to fulfill what they signed and you course signed together with us the paper. and then we got a response ok was weak about. general resolution of your problems or so ok let us speak about it we are open to speak about it 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 now 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 tell 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 break right now when we're back we'll continue talking to alexander who had been president talking about service in session to the e.u. and its relations with the united states stay with.

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struggles of many couples won't. kill what choked up what to put in bills and spawn both of you out of the populace most of the. you know we're back with alexander from church serbian leader as you present you just mobilize serbian army because dick hosmer leader went to visit the area with the majority and with arabs there so because of that why was it it's it's a view from outside people would say ok those guys wanted to visit one part of kosovo and then they will mobilize your army. they really remained i understand why they mobilized the army yes they were coming in there with. machine guns when we

have horses and everything else and they don't have right to come up with that kind of weaponry that was a. verbal arrangement although there is a statement done by nato plus of being use of 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 all one and the most important precondition was still ease the consent of local sort of community it isn't os given. 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 once again that's what they want 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 close up of nato there was not fulfilled and that's a precondition number one. which was consumptive so 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 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 a 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 an they took control 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 and diverse 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 investors we cannot say everything that we think to every one just cannot it's a different position. they're not as big as russia and they're not as strong as russia. we have to. keep the momentum of asking and trying. to carry on with the same or even bigger and better level of cooperation with all the others but at the same time don't forget. it's not only about nato spiration us that we don't have sort of is the only country to view them as an essential russia. we really think that it's an easy decision for serbia the other thing that we didn't face a lot of pressure from different sides on this issue yes for that mr president i

have to ask you i mean you said it so many times that you will never sacrifice your in membership with your relationship with russia you've been showing a great example of how not to do that but the day will come and you know it will come when they'll say alexander. why don't you join the sanctions and your membership to the e.u. purse the process of the ascending ascendancy of serbia to the you will be speeded up this day will come you know this sentence may sound differently in different variations but you get the point we're going to got a point you're very well prepared for this interview. but to tell you the truth. listening the same question for more than five years first of all we'll see whether that will happen. second we'll see reform but my type of third will see

what european union will look like with. four five six years. those or you know seven eight years i don't know. those deaths that's true we are all lost a league ation. before we join you. and whether it's going to happen anyway because . the most important precondition for your membership is to resolve the issue. that's much bigger much more problematic issue for us than any other issues as you can see there are many but. or if. and i hope that will be strong enough respect to be enough and that everyone will always appreciate and respect our relationship towards russian people towards russia we cannot change ourselves on this issue. and hopefully people

in europe will understand that but i'm saying to you once again who knows what will happen several years so then let me ask you about your aspirations to become part of you because i know you are very enthusiastic about it when you came to power well what your prime minister. once your president you always say did that yes serbia wants to be a part of the you let's say we live in the ideal world a new on kosovo resolve this issue overnight it happened so that's not an obstacle anymore you right now like you said you never know what is not the case but ok ok but let's go because it's always like what it will have the kosovo issue and then we never talk about serbia becoming part of the let's forget about cost of let's say you resolved it overnight and then you don't have and we're obstacles to go to the are you still isn't easy assoc i'm seeing what's going on there is south that's getting poor north that's getting richer and there are like in europe and western europe there are actually bickering about migration and so many more issues and

this elections that are coming up they're going to completely change the whole configuration and the paradigm in which you exist i mean it's kind of like a fractured. you need right now why do you want to be part of it so much and so the world whether someone. wants to do something desperately or not it's something about rushnell decisions. so reason it's because of several reasons one of for instance we want to belong to the type of society another one is. one tool we have in the. response of the stranger it's ruined your countries and sixty eight percent or trade or world trade to an over plus twenty percent of the original countries are within those is russia was trying. out a small portion of a turk we are situated that a lot of the world for 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 we were because you were insisting from the very first moment of your interview. everything that i was saying about your opinion betray the height but you don't mention the fact that even in washington or in brussels also say in the english 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 sort of one or issue is russia i just have maybe one last question or two about president trump because he's a very unconventional american leader and his views of the world and the way america should be are unlike the ones of his predecessors he's not very sympathetic towards e.u. i mean he's declaring taric 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 say or serbia's stance. you've invited him to come to serbia is that serbian or your friends of us are visible for anybody. we. sort of was the proof for. trump that obama will come up why i don't know because serbs have always thought that it was democrats' fault. if that's a question and the answer always support its republican party resuming or else and . compass you said is pretty much a question of them. you know only a few things about his politics almost nothing about his politics in the balkans but at least john bolton he opened the doors for possible arrangement

between bell bit and priest and that's what we appreciate and that's slightly a change. well their politics would have to see above it will have to see i cannot assess it they cannot estimated some asking is that the russians were all so excited about trump winning because well thought that republicans were better than democrats were russia and putin trump like each other on a personal level but then there's this stablish me that wouldn't let him do anything that's why i'm very very rational approach so i'm not excited. about emotional toll or russian or both and that's why i said to many 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 that was to tell you the truth. pretty much positively surprised by the knowledge

that you have shown and there are very few politicians in serbia that would. all the questions all the issues and i'm just a cold thank you i love your country and i wish l. the best of luck well love your country. all the best to your country and recalled that. will be able to preserve. the best possible solution between our two countries amen. please. note of what was announced at the to linger some at least it's just a good usual condition no.

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