Brnabic: The opposition is not fighting for Kosovo and Metohija, but against Vucic

Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic stated that nothing had been signed in Brussels and that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic had repeated Serbia's red lines during his stay at the EU headquarters, which, as she pointed out, was a “no” for Kosovo in the UN and a “no” to the recognition of Kosovo, Kurir reports.

"There is no break for the President of Serbia. Tomorrow is his birthday, but he is getting on a plane and traveling to Qatar, fighting for additional investments," Brnabic said.

As she pointed out, the attacks on Vucic had culminated this week - "the most brutal ones".

"They did everything to make Serbia's position difficult. Regardless of all the accusations, incitement, and fighting - the man won an additional period of peace and stability for us in Serbia," Brnabic added.

She added that the opposition had announced that Vucic would sign the capitulation in Brussels.

"There was a difficult meeting ahead of Serbia, the tycoon media and the opposition did everything they could, everything in their power to make Serbia's position difficult. The fact that they want to weaken Vucic on the issue of Kosovo and Metohija, they should know that this is weakening Serbia. When Aleksandar Vucic returned from Brussels, they said that they had never even said that he would sign," Brnabic said.

The Prime Minister assessed that it was an "incredible dose of insolence".

"They (the opposition) are not fighting for Kosovo and Metohija; they are fighting against Aleksandar Vucic, both those who are for NATO and those who are against NATO. They are fighting for personal interests. This is weakening Serbia, and they tried, before the very trip of the President to Brussels, to destabilize the situation in the country," Brnabic emphasized.

As she says, tycoons do not work in the interests of the people, but in the interests of foreign powers, which, she adds, is not the case when it comes to the president of Serbia and his policies.

"They lie to the people and say that everything that Vucic said - he will deny. After this, when he returned from Brussels, did we hear 'sorry' from them? Neither to Vucic, to whom they owe so much, nor to the people of Serbia, to whom they also owe apologized when they said D-Day would come," Brnabic explains.

As she pointed out, "this is how Serbia is built according to the foreign factor - without a stable majority in the Serbian Parliament".

"That's how Serbia used to be, and now Serbia is an independent country," Ana Brnabic said in the TV Pink morning program.

The Prime Minister said that three important things had happened in Brussels.

"Nothing was signed, and everyone in the international community is even louder; they say that the first item on the agenda is the formation of the Community of Serb-majority Municipalities, and there he repeated our red lines – “no” to Kosovo in the UN and no recognition of Kosovo," she added.

Commenting on the reactions of the Pristina media after the meeting in Brussels, Ana Brnabic said that politicians in Pristina had also emphasized that Vucic had been guarding Serbia's red lines.

"Haki Abazi is an influential politician not only in Kosovo but in the world. He is the one who finances Sava Manojlovic and other quasi-non-governmental organizations here. He said that the CSM was a noose around the neck of Kosovo, and now look: in 2013, Vucic devised the CSM and inserted it into the Brussels agreement. Nobody believed in it; nobody saw the value. It shows how wise and cunning he is as a statesman. The man inserted something that only he knew, that would be the subject of controversy 10 years later," Brnabic says.

She also reminded that "those who released 1,891 Albanian terrorists from prison in 2001 called the president a traitor."

"They were in the process, so they were released. I have papers about those cases. They released the members of the Jablanica group, the Gjilan group, and Kurti; there are serious murderers here. Today we heard from the former New Democratic Party of Serbia as if to add salt to the wound, says Slobodan Samardzic "at least half of it was innocent". Even if half of it was innocent, you let murderers, rapists, and people who were involved in organ trafficking go. Jovanovic himself says that he does not believe that they asked for it, that there was no pressure. Only his comrades wanted to be released because of softer relations with the West," Brnabic said.

She added that some of them were in The Hague today.

"Imagine then what kind of criminals they are. And they released them, according to the amnesty law, which Kostunica signed. As of March 17, 2002, they all had to be free. On that day, March 17, two years later, the pogrom of the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija begins. And what is Jovanovic doing? He's bragging with no power," Brnabic points out.

She also pointed to the fact that in 2004, those who today called Vucic a traitor had been in power and in charge of the army.

"The burning of the monastery, the killing, the expulsion, only those who were sheltered by KFOR survived. That was the only time when KFOR shot at Albanian terrorists. There were Jeremic, Tadic, Ponosss... He was a “screw “in the army, so he became a general with a Croatian passport. They were all in power at the time. This didn't last 12 hours, so you couldn't organize yourself. You watched it from your offices in Belgrade. That violence lasted over two days - 70 hours and Belgrade did nothing. And today they are singing, they got carried away by the song, bursting with patriotism," Brnabic said.

As she noted, today Serbia was a stronger and more credible partner.

"How much the word of Aleksandar Vucic is respected and listened to - Kurti cannot charge the Serbs in Kosovo and Macedonia with a fine for registration. And then they were allowed to expel over 4,000 Serbs, to ethnically cleanse at least six cities. They fired five missiles at the people of Decani, the Monastery in Srbica, and the Virgin of Ljevis, the same happened in Prizren with their Cathedral. Everything was set on fire and destroyed, and now from the security of Belgrade, they are beating their chests, patriots. Now, they would go to Kosovo, they just need a negative PCR test," Brnabic added.

Brnabic also commented on Peter Stano's statement that the topic of the dialogue was not "mutual recognition", but "normalization of relations".

"Aleksandar Vucic fought for that, just as he fought for the CSM - the Prime Minister said and reminded of the mistake of the former government in 2010 to move the negotiations on Kosovo and Metohija from the UN to the EU, as well as the agreement from 2011 on the introduction of administrative crossings. They also gave what they never asked for," Brnabic concluded.