From: Exit Staff
Vucic Updates Putin on the ‘Kosovo Issue’ after Meeting with Macron, Russia Promises ‘Balanced Solution’

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has updated his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin regarding Serbia’s dispute with Kosovo, after his meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday in Paris.

Putin has assured Vucic that the Kremlin will work for a “balanced solution” to the “Kosovo issue”, which should then be approved by the United Nations Security Council.

The two leaders had a phone call on Wednesday, the Kremlin reported, during which the Serbian leader presented Putin with an assessment of the situation and his meetings with foreign leaders.

“The Russian side confirmed its principled position on working out a balanced solution to the Kosovo issue, which should be approved by the UN Security Council,” the Kremlin stated.

It comes two days after Vucic and Macron discussed the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue in Paris, and the French President praised his counterpart’s courage in having proposed several times “innovative solutions”. Macron did not specify what those solutions were.

The French President praised Vucic’s courage to propose several times “innovative solutions” to the dispute between the two countries, without specifying what those solutions are.

I must salute the risks he has taken on several occasions to propose innovative solutions,” Macron said about Vucic. “I am ready to support them, those solutions that will enable us to make progress on this subject, which is a subject, I would say, intimate for your country, for your people – those [solutions] that will obviously be agreed upon on both sides and which, if accepted, will finally enable us to settle this essential issue at the heart of our Europe.”

Meanwhile, Kosovo politics is focused on the electoral campaign for the February 14 general elections.