Jevtic: The agreement resolved the issue of all Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija without Pristina-issued documents

Vice President of the Serb List Dalibor Jevtic stated today that the agreement reached regarding the implementation of the laws on foreigners and vehicles will resolve the problem of Serbs in Kosovo who do not possess identity documents issued by Pristina, as well as professors, doctors, and students who come from central Serbia to work and study, Politika reported.

“We conducted a detailed analysis and the data show that between 7,000 and 10,000 Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, for various reasons, do not have documents issued by Pristina. To that number we should add a certain number of professors, doctors, and students who come from central Serbia and, had this agreement not been reached, all these people would have faced problems as early as tomorrow in terms of staying, working, and coming to the territory of Kosovo and Metohija,” Jevtic told Tanjug.

He assessed that the situation is not ideal but that practical solutions must be found in order to ensure normal and uninterrupted life and prevent what he described as Albin Kurti’s goal—namely the administrative expulsion of the Serbian population, Politika reports.

Jevtic stated that it is no secret that Kurti in this case applied what he described as the Croatian model of creating problems with documents in order to reduce the number of Serbs.

“In conversations I had with friends who are Serbs from Croatia, I heard on several occasions that Albin Kurti and his associates went to Zagreb and received instructions there on how and in what way to do what Croatia had done to Serbs in Croatia. In other words, to expel Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija in the same way—without violence, without physical violence, without a single shot fired,” he said.

He explained that people who, because of their Serbian identity cards, were unable to obtain Kosovo documents—since those identity cards are not recognized in Pristina—will now, under the latest agreement, be able to obtain Kosovo documents.

“It has been agreed that within a period of three months all those people will receive documents issued by Pristina and that this administrative problem will be resolved in that way. Pristina had created bureaucratic obstacles preventing them from obtaining documents, but this agreement will now make it possible,” he said.

He added that the situation surrounding the implementation of the laws on foreigners and license plates in Kosovo had been very tense and uncertain.

“Many accused both our state leadership and the Serb List of doing nothing, of remaining silent, and that the law on foreigners would come into force without any reaction from us. However, during all this time we were working in order to reach something that would ensure that tomorrow—Monday, as has already been said—will be a normal working day for the life and survival of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija,” Jevtic said.

He reiterated that the situation is not ideal or exactly what the Serbs would want it to be, but that practical solutions serving the citizens must be found—and that this is precisely what is now happening.