"You think Albanians won't move to occupy North?"

"I better not respond. I think everyone knows the correct answer to that question, regardless of what they are saying," the president of Serbia told reporters on Friday.

As he added, the issue of Kosovo is the most difficult and the most responsible one, which reflects "all of our, but also his concerns."

"I will give you the answer why this is so, the shortest answer, but it will take a while...," said Vucic.

"In 2001, 2002, in the ecstasy of opening toward the world, there where many good things, some bad things also, we lived in the belief that the West did everything it did to us while acting not against us, but against (President Slobodan) Milosevic. They were assuring us that standards in Kosovo would come before solving its status. Then after 2003 and the assassinations of the prime minister of Serbia, we had even more attacks on Serbs in Kosovo, more frequent attacks were occurring. Then March 2004 happened. A pogrom in Kosovo, burning, destruction, and expulsion of Serbs from Kosovo," explained Vucic.

According to his assessment, this was "a way to move from standards to status."

"It became clear to everyone that Albanians would not meet the standards, not even in the next 50 years. They have demonstrated this a number of times so far, as well as that they are acting under the direct hat of one or more Western powers. They showed at the time - here's what can happen if we do not get what we want. It was all an introduction into the self-proclaimed independence in 2008, and the horrific lack of reaction by the then (Serbian) government and the horrific lack of reaction by the international community," Vucic said.

He then explained that he said all this "so that citizens of Serbia realize that...