"It's my duty to explain to Serbs importance of compromise"

A central commemoration for the victims of the bombing of Serbia 20 years ago, which NATO carried out in the final phase of the war in Kosovo, will be organized in Nis, southern Serbia on March 24.
Vucic told this to ANSA during the interview.
"The attacks of the allies, which were launched without UN permission, in order to force Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw troops from from Kosovo and stop ethnic cleansing, were launched on March 24, 1999 and lasted for 78 days, and the balance was about 2,000 dead and enormous destruction and damage," writes ANSA.
"For us, this is a difficult month and a painful memory. Serbs believe that they have been wronged 20 years ago and that is what 99 percent of the population think," Vucic said.
He said that this is one of the main reasons why Serbia does not intend to join NATO.
"Despite that, we maintain good relations with the Alliance and its member states, but we do not want to enter it, and we will remain neutral," Vucic said.
The president added that the result of these attacks, in addition to the casualties and the destruction, was also the escape of hundreds of thousands of Serbs from Kosovo, two thirds of whom have not returned to their homes.

"We can not recognize Kosovo without getting anything from the other side," Vucic was quoted as saying in the interview he gave ahead of the visit to Serbia of Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Wednesday.

However, Beta agency said that this statement was included "in the first version of the interview" - but that ANSA "decided later to leave this sentence out of it."
Vucic is also quoted as saying that the issue of "border changes" was "a controversial topic - since not everybody recognizes the same borders, depending on whether...