Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has denied that Serbian Foreign Minister Marko Đurić was invited to Washington by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to be informed about “a secret binding agreement on the recognition of Kosovo’s independence.”
Serbia’s former ambassador to Washington, Nebojsa Vujovic, told the Beta news agency that the main purpose of Djuric’s invitation to Washington was to “inform him about a secret and binding agreement on the recognition of Kosovo’s independence.”
“Đurić was invited to Washington so that Rubio, on behalf of the US Government and President Donald Trump, could inform him about a secret and binding agreement to recognize Kosovo’s independence. This was the main purpose of Đurić’s invitation to Washington. Every day, step by step, Serbia is getting closer to formalizing and recognizing Kosovo as an independent state,” Vujović told the “Beta” agency. “By signing a binding agreement to recognize Kosovo, Trump would achieve a great success, while at the same time dealing a blow to the European Union and Russia. On the other hand, this suits Vučić because it would buy him time to remain in power. With this, Vučić would receive a tacit consent to the closure of independent media, while also postponing the imposition of US sanctions due to corruption, election manipulation and disregard for the rule of law, according to the Western Balkans Democracy Act, approved by the US Congress.”
But Vucic from Kazakhstan said that these are fabrications.
“I don’t think, not with Marco Rubio, but with Saint Peter, to talk about Kosovo. Kosovo is Serbia and will be. This is the end of history,” Vučić said, “Kossev” reports.
He said that Djuric met Rubio completely by chance and without planning.
Djuric also denied Vujovic’s claims.
“It is truly unbelievable that someone who represented our country here would say this. I will only say that when he was in charge of the Embassy in Washington, our country was bombed and relations were at the lowest possible level. These are complete fabrications,” Djuric said.
A day earlier, Marko Djuric announced a meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He said on “X” that they are working together with the US to make 2026 “an important year for Serbia-US relations.”