Jevtic: Albanian-majority composition of Brezovica Ski Center board another political message from Kurti

Serb List Vice President Dalibor Jevtic told Kosovo Online that several aspects of the composition of the interim board of the Brezovica Ski Center were problematic. He said that five of its seven members were from the Albanian community and two from the Serbian community, meaning that neither the population structure nor previous agreements were being respected. Jevtic assessed that this represented yet another political message from Albin Kurti.

Jevtic pointed out that it was particularly problematic that Albanians held a two-thirds majority on the board.

“There are several problematic aspects here. First and foremost, it is problematic that the board has seven members, while Albanians hold a two-thirds majority. Five of them are from the Albanian community and two are Serbs. In that context, in addition to the fact that this concerns the Brezovica Ski Center, which is located in the Serb-majority municipality of Strpce, the composition of the population is not being respected, nor is the original agreement, which I have pointed to on numerous occasions. When I was mayor, it was agreed that nothing would be done without the local government, that Serbs would always constitute the majority on the board, and that the basic principle would be that those appointed to the board should be residents of the municipality,” Jevtic said.

He assessed that many of these arrangements had not been respected and that numerous aspects were problematic, describing the move as, in his view, a political message from caretaker Prime Minister Albin Kurti.

“Much of what was agreed has not been respected, many things are problematic, and this is Albin Kurti’s political message that he is continuing his policy of ethno-nationalism, with Nenad Rasic as his accomplice, endorsing all of it. These are political appointments, which raises the question of what purpose all this serves—why the laws are not being respected, why the provisions of the Kosovo Constitution concerning the number of members of non-majority communities in public enterprises, boards, and institutions in general are not being respected,” Jevtic said.

Speaking about the latest decisions rejecting the return of Serbian judges and prosecutors to the institutions, Jevtic assessed that they sent a message that Kurti did not want Serbs in the institutions or the Serbian people in Kosovo.

“These latest decisions concerning the rejection of the return of Serbian judges and Serbian prosecutors to the institutions send a message not only that Kurti does not want Serbs in the institutions, but that he does not want the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija either. In that context, all of this is problematic. We have no different expectations when it comes to Kurti and his lackey Rasic, but there is always the question we put to representatives of the international community, who told us something different when we warned that the issue of judges and prosecutors would also be resolved in the manner Kurti wanted, rather than in the manner they claimed it would be,” Jevtic said.

He added that, in his view, there had been no response from the international community to other problems raised by representatives of Serbs in Kosovo either.

“There has been no reaction from the international community to any of the other problems either, and that is what is problematic. But we will continue to persevere and insist on these issues because, ultimately, this too will pass. Albin Kurti’s policy has certainly been laid bare, and if anyone had any doubts about it, they no longer do,” Jevtic stressed.

He described it as “shameful, painful, and devastating” that, as he put it, Kurti had collaborators from within the Serbian community in implementing such a policy.

“What is shameful, painful, and devastating is that he has certain collaborators from within the Serbian community who, by participating in such a process, are supporting this policy of displacing Serbs,” Jevtic concluded.

Jevtic had previously stated in a Facebook post that, by appointing the interim board of the Brezovica Ski Center, Pristina had committed another act of institutional violence against Serbs in Kosovo.

“In a community such as Strpce, where Serbs account for more than 70 percent of the population, Pristina appoints a seven-member interim board with only two Serbs on it! To make the absurdity even greater, some of the appointed members from the Albanian community are not even residents of the municipality of Strpce,” Jevtic stressed in the post.