President of Serbia Aleksandar VucicBELGRADE, Mar 13The West wants to accept Kosovo into NATO, for which the independence of the self-proclaimed republic must be recognized by all EU member states, said Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić. Kosovo's independence is not recognized by the EU and NATO member states Greece, Spain, Romania, Slovakia and EU member Cyprus. Pristina, in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 1244, does not have its own army, but with material support from NATO, it is modernizing and training the lightly armed Kosovo Security Forces in order to transform them into full-fledged armed forces, which causes protests from the Serbian authorities. «They want to push the self-proclaimed Kosovo into NATO. I I did not invent it, I read these documents 50 times. Romania, Slovakia, Spain and Greece are countries that must recognize the independence of Kosovo in order to be accepted into NATO,» Vučić told TV Pink, but clarified that such an approach «is not suits the United States, «while not revealing his vision of the reason for the possible dissatisfaction of the States with this state of affairs. According to him,» those who cannot mock Russia, mock Serbia. «What is Serbia's fault, that it observes international law «Everything has been turned upside down now. When the Russians say what they said (in 1999 during the NATO bombing — ed.), they do not remember what they said then. Serbia respects me international law. Russia invaded Ukraine, but it doesn’t occur to us to throw Dostoevsky out of the curriculum,» the Serbian president emphasized. In an address to citizens on March 2, Vucic said that the Serbian authorities supported 4 of the 13 points of the UN resolution condemning the actions of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, those which do not imply sanctions and do not plan to alienate the property of Russian companies in the country.According to him, the crisis due to hostilities in Ukraine is dramatically affecting Serbia, which has come under huge foreign political pressure.Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to harassment and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only However, according to the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the Russian President emphasized.
