Serbian President threatens Ukraine's territorial integrity over Kosovo's membership with Council of Europe
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Are you surprised by yesterday's vote in the Council of Europe and will Serbia perhaps in any way change its attitude towards the countries that voted for or abstained and did not recognize Kosovo?
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Of course, there were disappointments.
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Of course there were also . . .
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Serbia has never been restrained on the issue of Ukraine's territorial integrity. Never
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On every vote, it's one thing whether you sanction someone or don't sanction someone. That's your policy
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And whether you are a reservist or a supporter of someone's territorial integrity is another matter entirely.
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Serbia has never been restrained on the issue of Ukraine's territorial integrity.
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That this decision is not accidental, I just want to inform you, that the Ukrainian representatives have asked for a pause in the work so that they can consult, of course, with their American and European allies and helpers, so,
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and then they made a decision to be restrained on the issue of the territorial integrity of the Republic of Serbia.
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We don't have a coherent foreign policy strategy, and that's why we're going to work on it and with the elements that we've given today, which is that in our foreign policy we take into account our bilateral relations,
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We have to take care, not to go beyond the limits of reciprocity, so if someone does not respect the territorial integrity of the Republic of Serbia, why should we be obliged to respect their territorial integrity?
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I just don't want to make decisions in a hurry, and that's why I said we need three or four weeks to put together a proposal, a report on the draft, then a strategy proposal, and then we'll slowly implement it.
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Because it's like, hey, you're very good and we love you very much, you're very smart, but, you know, we don't exactly recognize your territorial integrity, but you recognize ours.
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Really. Did you come up with this on your own or did someone help you? And now we're going to treat it differently, or we're going to treat it fairly
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First, number one, the principle of respecting the United Nations Charter of international public law norms, and number two, the principle, as you treat us, so we treat you.
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Or you can respect the principle of reciprocity.
Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic threatens to no longer respect Ukraine's territorial integrity after yesterday's vote in favor of Kosovo's membership with the Council of Europe.
This video in Serbian was translated to English, Српски on April 25, 2023, using Targum.video AI translation service.
