Jevtic: We expect that the previously reached agreements will be implemented through the European proposal

The European Union and the US had realized that a new crisis and potential conflict in this part of Europe was not necessary and, after everything we had all been through, it was the right moment to solve certain issues and certain problems, the President of Strpce Municipality, Dalibor Jevtic, said today in Zagreb at the forum "Kosovo, truths and lies", TV Most reports.

Jevtic stated that the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina had no alternative, and that the European proposal was not easy for either side, but that he, as a citizen, would like to feel its benefits.

"We have the possibility to live normally, without political pressure and political burden. I always emphasize that we should support every process, no matter how difficult it is, that will bring peace, stability, and normal life," Jevtic said, Tanjug reports.

He stated that it could be expected that the previously reached agreements would be implemented through the European Agreement, which was necessary in order to continue the dialogue.

Jevtic mentioned that the EU and the US had seen the threat of a potential conflict on the territory of Kosovo and that was why the dialogue had been intensified.

"Recently, I was in Washington and talked with the special American envoy for the Western Balkans, Gabriel Escobar, and other officials, and I felt a great determination that Washington should enter this process with a very clear goal, which is to stop procrastinating and to start not only with the agreement but with the implementation of what was agreed," Jevtic said.

When it comes to the Community of Serb-majority Municipalities, Jevtic emphasized that it should provide the Serbs with an institutional organization and that it should not be monoethnic, as Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti claimed.

"The CSM will not be monoethnic. I mentioned Strpce, there are other municipalities where other communities and other people live, such as Novo Brdo, Gracanica, North Mitrovica, where Albanians, Bosniaks, and other people live," Jevtic pointed out.

The forum "Kosovo - truths and lies" was organized by the Serbian Business Club, Privrednik, and the Serb National Council in Zagreb.

The President of the Serb National Council in Croatia, Milorad Pupovac, said that the European Agreement was not a document on mutual recognition, but had been made according to the model of two Germanys.

He said that, from the Albanian side, there was a lack of awareness that no new state with a multi-ethnic composition could receive any form of political recognition if it did not resolve the issue of those who were the most important segment of that multi-ethnic composition; in this case, it was the Serbs.

Pupovac also said that due to the situation in the world, it was necessary to normalize the relationship between Belgrade and Pristina.

"This is not only a question of relations between the Serbs and Albanians, Pristina and Belgrade, but regional stability and peace and Serbia's perspective within the framework of that regional concept of peace in Europe and world politics, in circumstances that have never been more difficult since the Second World War," Pupovac concluded.