Brnabic: Recommendation of the European Parliament contrary to the Security Council Resolution 1244
Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said today that the European Parliament's recommendation regarding Serbia, which called for mutual recognition with Kosovo, was not in accordance with international law, nor with UN Security Council Resolution 1244, RTV reports.
Brnabic does not expect from the European Commission to act on the recommendations adopted by the European Parliament regarding Serbia, because she does not see any legal basis for that. As she said, the adopted recommendations do not have the force of a resolution and the European Commission can take them into account and act on them, but it can also do the opposite.
Brnabic stated that the recommendation, in addition to asking Serbia to impose sanctions on Russia, is to reach mutual recognition with Kosovo.
"Those two recommendations have the same weight and I don't know why our media talks about one recommendation and not the other, because in fact those two recommendations show the character of what has just been passed in the European Parliament, which I don't think is in the interest of Serbia and I don't think it's fair," Brnabic told reporters in Belgrade.
She added that she was certain that the EP's recommendation is neither in accordance with international law nor with UN Security Council Resolution 1244.
"That document is contrary to the resolution of the UN Security Council, so I have no expectations that the European Commission will act on those recommendations, primarily because the EC must be neutral in status and because there are five member states that do not recognize Kosovo's independence, Brnabic said.
On the other hand, what is stated in the recommendations is not stated in the negotiation framework, the Prime Minister emphasized.
"The negotiating framework is in accordance with the UN Security Council resolution 1244, it provides a precise methodology for negotiations, and you can only regress if there is no significant progress in the area ofthe rule of law and nothing else. That framework makes it quite clear as a definition that alignment with the EU's foreign and security policy must be gradual and it should be 100 percent at the moment of accession to the EU," said Brnabic.
She reminded all members of the EP who voted for the recommendations that Chapter 31 has not yet been opened for Serbia.
"I don't know on what basis they change the standards and frameworks of the negotiations or want to change them, because nothing they say in the recommendations is in accordance with the framework, but it is a political signal from certain members of the European Parliament," Brnabic said.
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