"If dialogue means recognizing Kosovo - then thanks, bye"

Vucic said that they discussed continuing (Belgrade-Pristina) dialogue, and "solving problems."

Vucic said that he "does not understand why they (Pristina) accepted only information exchange when it comes to the investigation into the murder of Oliver Ivanovic" - but that he "hopes they will find his killers."

The Serbian president also said that it was important to talk, and that he was "thinking about the future of the Serb and of the Albanian people."

"We had meetings with Albanians who are represented here in line with what has been agreed - i.e., Kosovo, asterisk, (UN Security Council) Resolution 1244," the president said, apparently referring to an agreement reached in 2012 on the use in regional forums of the term "Kosovo" without prejudging the final status of Serbia's southern province, where ethnic Albanians in 2008 unilaterally declared independence - a move Serbia considers a violation of its territorial integrity and sovereignty.

When the interviewer remarked that Vucic will be taking part "in a number of meetings actually also referring to Serbia and Kosovo" - and asked whether that should "make us rejoice or be worried," Vucic said this was not about "Serbia and Kosovo" but about "Belgrade and Pristina" - "although Thaci has been talking about Serbia and Kosovo, while some people are not talking at all about Serbia and Kosovo."

"Yes, our relations are being talked about and it's not an easy year ahead of us, anyway. Since I am unable to comment on the stupidities that some people on the Serbian political scene are uttering - we must decide what it is we can do, what it is we want, what it is we want to do with ourselves. To have a real, serious and...