Petkovic: Bislimi’s interview is a pure deception; the draft of the CSM was presented in 2023 in Brussels

The Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petkovic, described the interview of Kosovo’s Caretaker Deputy Prime Minister and chief negotiator in the dialogue with Serbia, Besnik Bislimi, as a pure deception, pointing out that it is a lie that the Management Team did not present the Draft Statute of the Community of Serb Municipalities, as it was, he said, presented on May 2, 2023, in Brussels.

In a post on the social network X, Petkovic also stated that it is false to claim that the dialogue is conducted between "Serbia and Kosovo."

“UN General Assembly Resolution from 2010 established the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina. It’s a lie that Serbs have privileges in Kosovo and Metohija – over 600 attacks on Serbs, 6 Serbs shot, Serbian children harassed by the Kosovo Police, the violent closure of Serbian institutions, 4 Serbian-majority municipalities usurped, Serbian property being seized, and 20 percent of Serbs have left the north due to Kurti’s terror! Of course, none of that was mentioned in Bislimi’s interview. But he shouldn’t worry, I will tell it all to his face again soon in the dialogue,” Petkovic declared.

Bislimi, in an interview with Deutsche Welle, stated that the Brussels Agreement does not explicitly mention the CSM in any of its articles, but rather the obligation of the parties to implement previous agreements. He also claimed that the EU itself acknowledged that the list of Serbia’s unfulfilled obligations is twice as long as Kosovo’s.

Bislimi further stated that the confusion surrounding the CSM stems from a lack of understanding of the details, and that the working group, composed of members of the Serbian community and tasked with proposing a draft statute of the Community, had not submitted any document until 2024, despite being assigned that responsibility as early as 2013.