Brnabic: Some major powers are pushing Kosovo into the Council of Europe, we will fight against it

The President of the Serbian Assembly, Ana Brnabic, stated today that Serbia will fight against Kosovo's membership in the Council of Europe, even though it will be a tough battle because, as she emphasized, some major powers are "pushing" Pristina into that organization and want to reward Albin Kurti.

Brnabic told reporters, after the session of the Presidency of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), that everyone is working on it together, through the newly formed Working Group - the president's cabinet, government, parliament, and that it will be a tough battle.

"It will be a tough battle because there is obviously a clear intention to, regardless of what is currently happening in Kosovo and Metohija, and after President Vucic clearly and unequivocally explained in the UN Security Council how Kurti is implementing a systematic policy of creating impossible conditions for the lives of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, whose aim is the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo of Serbs and other non-Albanians," Brnabic stated.

She pointed out that there are certain world powers that want to reward Kurti and his government for all of this.

She particularly finds it sad and strange that all of this is happening, practically, at a time when it marks 11 years since the signing of the Brussels Agreement, guaranteed by the European Union, which envisaged the only obligation of Pristina - the formation of the Community of Serbian Municipalities.

"There is not even talk of the CSM, Kurti explicitly maintains the policy that he will not form it and that the Brussels Agreement does not exist for him. These are things that need to be clarified, to see how it happened that of the three basic conditions they have for any discussion on the Council of Europe, it practically boils down to one and that is meaningless - a reward for someone for deciding to respect the decision of something they call the constitutional court after eight years," the president of the parliament emphasized.

She repeats that the fight will be tough.

"But we will fight, we will not surrender or give up, and we will not do what the former DOS did in 2001, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2011. That we will sit in cabinets and silently watch everything, not doing anything to avoid offending anyone, you won't see that movie this time," Brnabic stated.

The working group has been formed and serious work will be done on this, she says.

"Whether we will succeed, we'll see, but we will fight, we will give it our all, we will not hold back. And we will present to the European and world public how hypocritical and terrible it is what some great powers are trying to do by forcibly pushing Pristina into the Council of Europe, which is the guardian of human rights and the rule of law. There is not even an 'h' of human rights, nor a 'r' of the rule of law under Kurti, but someone wants to show brute force," Brnabic concluded.