Draskovic accuses Vucic: Serbia must recognize the reality of Kosovo
Express newspaper
29/06/2025 19:04
Former Serbian politician and former Foreign Minister, Vuk Draskovic, has stated that the current President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, has changed radically since the beginning of his career as a state leader.
In an interview for the Montenegrin newspaper VictoryDraskovic said that the Vucic of 2012, 2013 and 2014 has nothing to do with who he is today.
“He is a different man. At the time I believed he really wanted a turnaround,” Draskovic said, recalling an article by Vucic published in the newspaper. Today, where the latter admitted that the policy of the ’90s was wrong and blind, and that the then leadership had not understood the changes after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Draskovic said he had supported Vucic’s commitment to the Europeanization of Serbia, to Euro-Atlantic integration and the normalization of relations with Kosovo – including the signing of the Brussels Agreement in 2013.
But, according to him, these efforts were sabotaged not by the government, but by the opposition itself and the Serbian church.
“Three bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church held a memorial ceremony for the living signatories of the Brussels Agreement. The opposition stoned him instead of supporting him. From 2014 onwards, I have been the only opposition to Vučić, in many ways.”
He added that he was the only voice that publicly demanded that Kosovo be admitted to the Council of Europe and Interpol, as well as that Serbia join NATO.
“I warned Vučić not to deceive the people with roads, hospitals and schools, because we do not live only by bread, but also by spirit. I compared this to the temptation of Christ by the devil in the desert.”
According to Drašković, today Serbia is experiencing a deep moral and cultural decline.
“Never before have spirit, morality and common sense been so buried. The language is in danger, culture is missing. And every evening, from the mouth of the president himself to his associates, we hear that the citizens who protest are Ustashas, Nazis, trash, foreign spies. This is the greatest downfall of Serbia,” he concluded./Telegraph