MOSCOW, March 27. /TASS/. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s statement about alarming news he had received may be related to Kosovo’s accession to the Council of Europe, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) Professor Yelena Ponomaryova, who is also president of the International Institute for the Development of Scientific Cooperation, told TASS.

Vucic said earlier that he had received some grave news in the previous 48 hours, which posed a threat to the vital national interests of both Serbia and Republika Srpska, one of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He promised to explain all challenges facing the Serbian people in the coming days. Radio Sarajevo suggested that the Serbian president could have been hinting at UN High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina Christian Schmidt’s decision to introduce changes to the electoral laws of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Another suggestion was that Vucic had received some reports concerning Kosovo’s accession to the Council of Europe.

"Changes to the laws of Bosnia and Herzegovina are unlikely to be the source of the serious national security threat that Vucic was talking about. Because he was talking exactly about a national security threat. This is why I tend to believe that it’s something related to the situation in Kosovo, both inside the region and beyond," the expert noted.

She pointed out that even though a large part of the world did not recognize Kosovo, "its immediate creators - Washington, London and Brussels - have been lobbying for its membership in international organizations." "If, for example, the reports are confirmed that Kosovo has been invited to the Council of Europe, and very serious integration processes pertaining to Kosovo’s accession to European Union are underway, while, as we all know, Serbia is not an EU member, then the situation would really be very strange," Ponomaryova stressed.

"The situation related to the security threats facing Serbian citizens residing in Kosovo and the Kosovo Serbs may be even worse," the analyst added.