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Aleksandar Vučić

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  1. “Does it mean that Europe will fight for that territory? Or there are still five non-recognizers within the European Union of Kosovo. What are you going to do with those countries? Because you will never ever be able to force Spain. Never ever to recognize Kosovo's independence because of their own interests.”

    2026-04-26 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 186. President Aleksandar Vučić: Russia, China, and How Serbia Could Join the EU · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “And he was mentioning if you don't recognize Kosovo's independence, you are not going to be a part of European Union. Now, European Union is discussing full-fledged membership status for Ukraine. We have nothing against it, to be very frank, very open. But what would be the territory? Will join Europe”

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  3. “Much easier. Two hours, two and a half hours, easy for them, no borders. For Bosniaks from Sarajevo to go to Novipazar, for Serb from Banaluka to come to Belgrade, for Serb from Bielinak to come to Belgrade, and vice versa, for Serbs in Kosovo Skamitrovica, they will always say we live in Serbia, Pristina will always say they live in Kosovo, but they will easily go to Pristina, they will easily go to Belgrade, they will easily go to Herzegovina wherever they want. That was an idea. And to connect us economically. And, you know, you have to work with the governments, with the local, regional countries, entities, authorities. That's it. And no one will never, ever put in jeopardy that kind of peace.”

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  4. “All of us doesn't matter entities, states, countries, whatever you call it. Everybody is free to move. Can you imagine how much easier would be for Bosniak from Novi Pazar to go to Sarajevo, particularly when we finish this highway towards Bosnian border?”

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  5. “And we are fed up with wars. My idea was, and I wanted to finish and I still want to finish my mandate, my tenure without having any wars. And we were accused by your press, by everybody. In Great Britain thousands of times in last four and a half years since the war in Ukraine started, that small Serbia, those Russian puppets will launch a war against someone in the Balkans in order to distract our attention from Russia and blah, blah, blah. And I was listening to that for more than a four years, and I have never heard a word of apology or whatever. Never, ever. We want to keep peace and we invested into that peace. And my idea is, and our idea was, our common idea was, okay, open the Balkan area.”

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  6. “I'll tell you what is the overall idea. You know, Serbs lost 29% of its overall population in the First World War. We started First World War two months before you started. And who were the country with speaking about proportional numbers, of course, with the biggest losses in the First World War, us, then French, then all the others. Second World War. Only Serbs were at the beginning of the war anti-Nazi oriented. Only Belgrade was bombed, as you know. All the others were receiving German tanks and German troops with flowers and greetings. Belgrade has never done it, and we paid a big price for that as well.”

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  7. “It's very easy. That was my idea with an open Balkan as well. That's what we wanted. And then it was interrupted because some European big powers were not having a steering wheel in their hands.”

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  8. “No, it can take even 10. Speaking about massacres and everything else, it was happening on both sides. It was exaggerated from your side about their destiny. It was also from our side. We were pretending that there were no war crimes on our side, but there were. But at the same time, there were many war crimes that not only Albanians, but foreign troops were Okay, put that aside. Now, the question is Pandora's box Opened. Now no one will stop it. No one will stop it till some new world order is produced. And that's it. And it was all about Yugoslavia or Serbia, if you like it.”

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  9. “No, I don't say that we were angels. I don't say that we were like people without any faults, without any guilt. No. But we were not the only culprit, no doubt, for everything that was happening here. And I'm speaking about the observance of international public law, which is very clear. And you cannot provide any kind of responses, even as a very smart man and not any other guy can do that. The real issue is...”

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  10. “Even with Related to everything that was happening after that. And you know all these politicians were saying the first attack in Europe, the first violation of territorial integrity happened in Ukraine. No, it's not true. It happened here. It happened here. You were guaranteeing, Alistair, you were guaranteeing us territorial integrity of Serbia if we accept territorial integrity and independence of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia.”

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  11. “If you remember, and I know that you remember You two are very smart guys. Not gonna flatter you further more. But you know something, you remember when you how you emphasize that one dwarf of victories we had, although I have never said that we won. We didn't. But I don't think that you won.”

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  12. “It's not okay, Alistair. There are no responses to that. Whenever I say this, I hear the same sentence Don't look back to the past and then I say I don't look back to the past you ask me the question. Wanted me to say this to you, otherwise would have spoken about, I don't know, expo growth rates, GDP, public debt-to-GDP ratio and everything else.”

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  13. “But I can tell you many people in the world started doing something against sovereign nations and changing borders because they saw that you were able to change our borders, or at least you thought that you finished your job. 1999 and 2008. That was the way that Pandora's box was opened, actually. When you say, if you ask all European officials today, if you ask all of them, tell me how can you not be on Ukrainian? We support territorial integrity of Ukraine. We act in accordance with UN Charter, your resolutions and everything else. But my question to you is why are you still we have twelve forty four resolution in effect? It has not been dismantled or abolished, no? It's in effect. Why don't you observe that resolution”

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  14. “I really disagree with you on this, and I'm not gonna discuss part of your sentence, which is don't look back to the past. Because would you say the same to Ukrainians with Crimea? Why do you look back to the past? In twenty fourteen you lost that Crimea, why do you still claim that it's your territory? You would never do so”

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  15. “What is the real issue today in the Balkan that people don't want to understand because for you, as Alistair has just said, All over, we won the war. You were stronger. Nineteen strongest countries in the world were stronger than one small Serbia. And it was not the case that Serbia attacked any of your countries. It was the case that you attacked Serbia. People here are proud, dignified, and they don't forget it. And I like the fact that we are more rational, that we are future-oriented, but if you ask the people about their souls, about their opinions, you're going to hear 90% of the same what I have just told you.”

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  16. “First of all, I believe I have changed my views not only recently, it's a process, but it has nothing in common with the bombardment of Serbia or that aggression that was launched in 1999 Whether I am more pragmatic, more rational. Whether I see the future of Serbia not in new wars but in opening borders in an entire Balkans, opening borders with Europe, this is what I see and I'm not ashamed. I'm not ashamed to say this. Even that with Mladic was exaggerated because you saw those labels with his name that I was sticking somewhere but it was not about that. It was about legal rights of some people to protest that were arrested about it. But, you know, you cannot explain everything to everybody. But anyway, I just wanted to tell you that”

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  17. “It's a different legal situation. The roots are you can find a common denominator speaking about the roots or the cause. Of the clash, of the clashes in Croatia, Bosnia and Serbian southern province, but at the end it was a different legal situation.”

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  18. “Today, if you ask ordinary Serbian people, They feel about 1999 How they felt, they feel even bigger resentment. Feel bigger disappointment with the behavior of 19 countries that launched aggression against a sovereign state, and people are absolutely certain, which is even confirmed by almost everybody that was done. In accordance with UN Trotter, not in accordance with UN Resolution 1244, that was done not because of preventing humanitarian disaster, as it was said by Alistair and some other smart guys, but it was actually Something West did in order to separate 14% of Serbia's territory. Which was, at least, attempted to be done eight, nine years later two thousand eight when they did this self proclamation of their independence.”

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  20. “Many people in the world started doing something against sovereign nations and changing borders because they saw that you were able to change our borders. We have principles unlike you, Alexander.”

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