Barac: The EU has lost the ability to moderate the dialogue, negotiations have become absurd

During the latest round of dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina held yesterday in Brussels, a trilateral meeting was also held with the participation of the EU Special Envoy Miroslav Lajcak and the chief negotiators from Belgrade and Pristina, Petar Petkovic and Besnik Bislimi. Srdjan Barac, an associate at the Center for Social Stability, says that Brussels has lost the ability to moderate the dialogue and that the dialogue and negotiations have become absurd.

“If we have reached a point where success is defined by merely sitting at the table to talk, it shows that Brussels has lost its ability to moderate this dialogue, that the dialogue no longer exists, and that the concept of discussing essential issues has been completely lost, with only the desire and willfulness of one side, namely, the institutions in Pristina, remaining,” Barac tells Kosovo Online.

He adds that the institutions in Pristina are personified by Albin Kurti, who is carrying out the actions he was elected for and received support from his voters.

"And that is the expulsion of Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija," he emphasized.

The Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petkovic, stated after the trilateral meeting yesterday that the Belgrade delegation had insisted on the formation of the Community of Serb Municipalities. Barac says that when talking about more than 11 long years since the signing of an agreement guaranteed by the EU, as something that still needs to be negotiated, it is very clear that the dialogue and negotiations are absurd.

“If we are talking about guaranteeing basic human rights for Serbs to live in the place where their fathers and grandfathers lived, where they were born, then it is questionable what these European values are, what the values of the supporters of this independent state of Kosovo are, and whether Serbia should continue to insist on it or whether it should be assumed and implemented as a signed document,” Barac stated.