Vucic: I will write to Rutte to ask that main bridge over Ibar River in Kosovska Mitrovica is not opened

President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic said today that the West is pushing for independence of so-called Kosovo by force, and that they are not interested in the position of the Serbs in the southern province. He announced that he will send a letter to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte with a request not to open the main bridge over the Ibar in Kosovska Mitrovica.

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"At this moment, they have to politically justify their crimes done in 1999 and in 2008, their wrong decisions and forcefully pushing Kosovo into independence at any cost. And they are not interested in the position the Serbs are in, they are not interested in Nenad Raskovic getting battered. Albanians told them that a Serb beat him. Of course they lied," Vucic said in response to a journalist asking for his comment on the lack of international community's reaction to the harassment and abuse of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija.

He added that representatives of the international community said on the first day that the photos of the beaten Nenad Raskovic were terrible, and then, they became quiet.

Vucic also pointed out that the opening of the main bridge over the Ibar River in Kosovska Mitrovica should not be allowed without the consent of the Serb mayors in the north, especially the Serb mayor of northern Kosovska Mitrovica (a town ethnically divided along the river).

"Today they can do that, too. And the Turk, the commander of KFOR (NATO force in Kosovo and Metohija), is the one doing that. I will soon write to Mark Rutte (NATO secretary general) and I do not believe that he will respond to my letter and that he will accept my plea not to do that. I will send the letter today or tomorrow," said Vucic.

He added that this is "a big disappointment for him".

"But it also tells us some other things: that there's anxiety in their ranks, that they don't know how to force Serbia to accept an independent Kosovo, whereas we will look to help our people in every way. That's what we can do," stressed Vucic.

According to him, things will change in the world, and they are changing, but not fast enough.

"At least not as fast as we would like and as much as we would like. In any case, it's a great disgrace for Europe, for the whole world, that they accepts the persecution of not only an Orthodox and a Christian nation, but also the persecution of a nation in its own home: the daily harassment, bullying, demolition of houses, and all the rest of it," said President Vucic.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)