Vucic: Chances of so-called Kosovo joining CoE remain very high

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday the chances of the so-called Kosovo becoming a Council of Europe (CoE) member remained very high but that Serbia was doing everything in its power to prevent that from happening.

"We are proud of that because, that way, we respect European rules," he said.

"Because we respect the European conditions and everything we have agreed with the Europeans and Americans, unlike them. Because the first sequence in implementing any agreements was the establishment of a Community of Serb Municipalities. But then, after some strange visits to Athens and strange discussions, a change of those conditions happened," Vucic said in a public address at the Presidency of Serbia.

He said that, after that, rapporteur Dora Bakoyannis of Greece and the proposers of a report in favour of the so-called Kosovo's CoE membership...