Konjufca: If it is requested that CSM has executive powers, we should go to elections

The President of the Kosovo Assembly, Glauk Konjufca, said that Kosovo received strong international guarantees that a third level of government would not be created with the Community of Serb-majority Municipalities and that, if the CSM is required to have executive powers, elections should be held, reported Ekonomia online.

"We received strong guarantees that the CSM will be a kind of forum. But, if it is requested that the CSM has executive powers or it is done through constitutional changes, I think that nothing has any value anymore and that the country should go to elections," stressed Konjufca.

He says that the request for association, apart from what was stipulated in the agreement between Kosovo and Serbia from 2013, was a request from Serbia, not the Serbian community.

He said that it was vitally important for Kosovo Serbs to take advantage of the rights provided by Ahtisaari's package, as a document that provides rights for minority communities at the highest level.

Konjufca explained the steps that are expected in the future regarding the self-government of the Serbian community, according to the European plan and the annex.

"It mentions that the EU is forming a monitoring team, which reports to the EU and pushes the parties towards what they said they agreed to," he says.

In this regard, he says that the Government, as well as the opposition, have already strongly positioned themselves that they will not allow connection with the executive power.

"There are strong guarantees that it will be some kind of forum for dealing with the interests of the Serbs. An entity that is mononational and that is the holder of public authority and for which Kosovo is being asked to change the constitution, I think that is a red line and then we have to stand firm. In that case, the Government of Kosovo makes no sense, neither does the Kosovo Parliament anymore, and the country should immediately go to elections in my opinion," says Konjufca.

Konjufca expects that tomorrow in the parliament, the government and the opposition will eventually draft a resolution that would re-emphasize the red lines beyond which Kosovo cannot negotiate or implement anything.

Try Vucic for the missing persons like Putin

"If the international community says that the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, does not know where they have disappeared, then he is lying, because Vucic knows where they are. The President of Serbia should be accused before an international court like Putin. For hiding the crimes and genocide committed in Kosovo, the President of Serbia deserves to be tried by the International Court of Justice, as it is currently done against the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin," says the President of the Assembly of Kosovo.

He explained that when it comes to covering up crimes, such as the case of not clarifying the fate of missing or forcibly abducted persons during the war, Vucic and the Serbian regime are committing a grave crime against humanity.

"Serbia needed an international protectorate because of war crimes," Konjufca believes.

He claims that Vucic and the state of Serbia know very well where the bodies of murdered and kidnapped Albanians during the war are hidden.

"People were forcibly kidnapped, disappeared, neither their fate nor the whereabouts of their bodies is known. As for where they are, I don't think it's a joke and that, for God's sake, the international community is fooling itself if it says that Vucic doesn't know," Konjufca says.

He also recalls the action of the Serbian authorities when they decided to build a training ground in Batajnica on the remains of murdered Albanians, a crime that was later discovered.

"Vucic, who was part of Milosevic's government, knows where they disappeared," emphasized Konjufca, calling on The Hague to deal with this issue.

Considering all these actions, Konjufca says there are conditions for Vucic to face international criminal prosecution like Putin.