President to address nation on Kosovo issue in September

Vucic said he would until then "continue the fight not to lose everything, but to try to get something" - which he said seemed to him like "we have a good opportunity to do."

"The Serb people will not be losers, we will not lose everything, we count also on higher wages, and we have a clear road to the future and security," Vucic said in a statement for RTS.

The Serbs, the president continued, "are scared that for the first time it could happen that something could be gained, that we won't lose everything, because we're used to that, to be the losers, not the winners."

He also addressed his political opponents' criticism and accusations to say that "no solution is good for them, while they have no proposal of their own."

According to Vucic, the Albanian press on the day of the adoption of the opinion of the International Court of Justice proclaimed Vuk Jeremic a hero, while he was called "Satan, Milosevic, and so on."

He said the criticism (from political opponents) became particularly frequent "after his meetings with Putin, with US representatives, Merkel, Macron... with leaders of powers without which there will be no solution."

"Particularly after the meeting with Macron - because they realized that support for Serbia is growing. We've carefully built this position, we tried to preserve peace and stability and the people of Kosovo," Vucic said. Some people, he added, "give patriotic lectures" and "do not realize that we have to think about what we will live from in the future."

"That is why I am seeking a compromise, so that our children do not suffer, that they do not have to suffer in the future and that they are not worried about the same things we are," said he.

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