BELGRADE, March 28. /TASS/. The situation in Serbia remains stable and safe despite earlier information about direct threats to the country’s national interests, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said.

"The situation is stable and safe. Is it difficult? Yes, it’s rather difficult, and we will talk about this later but I don’t want to discuss it today. It would be unfair to those who gave us so much money if we talked about something else today. The reason is that if I say even one phrase on this topic, you will turn it into a headline instead of covering what we are building and doing together here," Vucic told reporters, when asked to comment on the decision by the political committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to approve the accession of the unrecognized Republic of Kosovo’s "parliament."

On Thursday, the Serbian leader inspected the construction site of a high-speed railroad between the city of Nis and the Bulgarian border, which is being funded by the European Union. Vucic was accompanied by Serbian government members and EU Ambassador to Serbia Emanuele Giaufret.

Earlier, Vucic said on social media that Serbia was in for hard times as the news of the previous few days "directly threatens the vital national interests of both Serbia and Republika Srpska" (one of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina - TASS).

On Wednesday, Paris hosted a meeting of the PACE Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy, which considered Pristina’s membership request. Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said in this regard that the committee’s decision to recommend that Kosovo be invited to become a member of the Council of Europe was "shameful and scandalous as it violates all the principles that the Council of Europe is based on."