Drecun: Serbia will not step away from the request to form the CSM

The President of the Parliamentary Committee for Kosovo, Milovan Drecun, on the eve of the parliamentary session on Kosovo, said that on the agenda would be a report on the progress of the negotiation process, in which, when it came to the Community of Serb-majority Municipalities, the first point defined state policy and stated that Serbia would not step away from the request to form the CSM at any cost, RTV reports.

Drecun stated that the CSM was a condition for the eventual continuation of the dialogue and the return of Serbian political representatives to Pristina institutions.

Drecun said that in that item it was stated that Serbia insisted on the formation of the CSM based on the already-reached agreements.

As Drecun says, there should be no dispute, but it is still possible that some parties who do not recognize the Brussels Agreement and who therefore believe that there is no need to insist on the formation of the CSM, will be against the mentioned item of the report.

Drecun assumes that President Aleksandar Vucic intended to invite the presidents of parliamentary groups and parties to directly present to them some details about which he cannot speak publicly.

He added that the goal of the parliamentary session was to adopt a platform that would serve Belgrade for further dialogue.

It was also pointed out that part of the public had already created a false impression that Serbia had accepted the European proposal, stressing that it would only serve as a basis for further negotiations.

What is worrisome, Drecun points out, is how Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti will find a way out of this situation or he will remain consistent with the promises he made in the pre-election campaign and will not form the CSM.

"That is, he will not comply with the procedures that have been foreseen or he will decide to go to the elections. There is a third option that worries me a lot, and that is that he causes one, perhaps the most difficult, crisis and destabilization in the north of Kosovo, with an enormous amount of violence against the Serbs and thereby push the issue of the CSM into the background. To see if he can get some political points out of it and greater support from the West, in order to get out of this extremely bad situation for him in the political sense," Drecun said.

Commenting on yesterday's statement by the American ambassador in Pristina, Jeffrey Hovenier, in which he insisted on the formation of the CSM, but in accordance with the Constitution of Kosovo, as well as that the US did not want a "new Republika Srpska" in Kosovo, Drecun said that the Republika Srpska was something completely different and that here we were talking about a community that needed to create its own institutional mechanism so that the Serbs could live normally and survive in their centuries-old spaces and not be second-class citizens.

"Kurti says that the Community is not in accordance with the so-called Constitution, and the Americans now say that it is in accordance with the so-called Constitution. Here is another question, the American ambassador in Pristina says that the Community must not have executive powers. I ask you, since when? What was negotiated, do the Americans now want to say that they did not participate in all those rounds of talks led by, for example, Catherine Ashton? At that time, they did not mind that the Community should have executive powers," Drecun said.

He added that what was written in the four agreements was acceptable and that without it, as he said, there was no political game.

"Or we will form the Community, if we form it - we will form it the way it was agreed. Otherwise, they should not count that through Belgrade they will succeed in revising the Brussels Agreement," Drecun said.