Simic: The conclusions should respond to the repression of Kurti's regime

The vice-president of the Serb List, Igor Simic, said today that the conclusions presented by the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, in Raska, had a positive resonance among the Serbs from Kosovo and should respond to the repression of the Albin Kurti regime, as well as economically empower the Serbs from those areas, RTV reported.

"Representatives of the Serbs, led by the Serb List, had extremely harsh demands, based on actions and brutal force carried out by the regime of Albin Kurti, which culminated in attempts to kill the Serbs in the north of Kosovo and Metohija," Simic told Tanjug.

Simic reminded that conclusions had been presented yesterday in Raska demanding compliance with the agreement on license plates, the formation of the Community of Serb-majority Municipalities according to the Brussels Agreement, and the withdrawal of Kosovo's Special units from the north, and added that the Serb List would not participate in the upcoming elections organized by Pristina.

"It was unanimously decided that the Serb List would not participate in these elections, and I believe that no Serb will participate in the elections that should enable Albin Kurti to occupy the north of Kosovo," Simic said.

He said that it was significant that Serbia would allocate economic resources to help the Serbs north and south of the Ibar, through the creation of hundreds of jobs.

"It is planned to employ up to 600 people with secondary and higher education, then 100 people with higher education, and this refers to people up to the age of 35 who will start their families here, or who have already started their families and who plan to stay and take care of this area for generations to come," Simic pointed out.

The vice president of the Serb List added that there were also plans to strengthen the health sector through the employment of 50 doctors and 50 nurses.

He stated that it was a devastating fact that the representatives of the Police units of Kosovo stand at what he said, were illegal police points and shot at unarmed Serbian civilians and added that the international community did not react to these attacks.

"In these complex circumstances, we are trying to preserve the peace, but if you consider that since January of this year, 38 ethnically motivated attacks have been carried out, and none of them have been fully investigated and resolved, the question arises as to what this is leading to and how far the international community will be blind to what is happening to the Serbs," Simic said.

He explained that the argument put forward by Pristina - that the non-participation of the Serbs in the elections would not create the conditions for the formation of the CSM was not correct, because the Serbs had had their own mayors for years, but the formation of the CSM had not happened.

"We do not want to participate in something called a farce, not an election, because to be honest, without the participation of 99 percent of the people and the installation of Kurti's mayors in the north of Kosovo and Metohija, in purely Serbian areas, the legitimacy of those people is called into question and that is something that the international community must take into account," Simic said.

Simic added that elections for the Kosovo Serbs had been forbidden in the case of parliamentary elections in Serbia or when voting had been held in a referendum on judicial reform.

"Even then the international representatives were silent. Does this mean that some elections have more weight than others, are the elections organized by Serbia less important," Simic asked.

The vice-president of the Serb List reminded that Pristina had not respected any agreement signed since 1999.