"We have been warned - if we send soldiers to Kosovo..."
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said this on Tuesday in Belgrade.
He was replying to a journalist question about whether Serbia - after frequent attacks on Serbs in Kosovo, and speculation by Pristina-based media about a deployment of security forces on the administrative line - would "introduce" a thousand members of its security forces back to Kosovo - as envisaged by UN Security Council Resolution 1244.
"It's not right and it's not fair, but we are fighting in accordance with very few possibilities and within a very narrow maneuvering space, and it's our job to fight," Vucic said.
As he explained, he has been "personally warned on the occasion of the idea" of returning a thousand soldiers to Kosovo that "if we try, we will confront the largest military force in the world."
"If you try to enter Kosovo with your army and your police, NATO will treat it as a hostile act," the president conveyed the warning he received.
He also said he "compared the situation several times, to, say, the (UN) resolution on Jerusalem - where Western powers have rejected Trump's pressure to move their embassies to that city, as the White House has done."
They, he continued, said they were justified by the fact that such a move would be contrary to the resolution on Jerusalem.
"I then told them they are all behaving unlawfully when they are undermining Resolution 1244, and then they shrug their shoulders, look at their advisers and... nothing," the president said.
This, he says, is "a serious situation" - and so he wants to "explain to citizens that these people are not interested in law and Resolution 1244, but in force and factual situation."
"Only the law of force is valid, and,...
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