Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that he was surprised by US Ambassador Kyle Scott saying that “not only Pristina is to blame.”
Scott said the blame for the current relations between Belgrade and Pristina is also the absence of dialogue on both sides. “I am surprised by Scott’s statement. Hang on, man. They say, don’t shift the blame. Say what we are guilty of?,” Vucic said in an interview with Belgrade based TV Happy. Vucic said that former and current high ranking US State Department officials, Wess Mitchell and Matthew Palmer, criticized him in meeting and said he was “unfair” in the context of the dialogue with Pristina because, thanks to the engagement of Serbia, a number of countries have withdrawn their recognition of Kosovo. Vucic asked whether the United States complained to Pristina when Madagascar recognized Kosovo – as it was now complaining when Madagascar withdrew that recognition. The president pointed out that the United States is calling on the countries not to withdraw recognition, and that representatives of the Dominican Republic and Suriname showed him a circular letter asking them not withdraw their recognition of Kosovo.
