Simic: Pristina will do everything to prolong the formation of the Community of Serb-majority Municipalities

The vice-president of the Serb List, Igor Simic, said today that it could be concluded from the statements of the leaders of the Albanians in Kosovo that they would do everything to prolong the obligation to form the Community of Serb-majority Municipalities (CSM), which they had undertaken almost 10 years ago, RTV reported.

Simic told Tanjug that he could conclude that the politicians in Pristina were not politically mature enough to understand that they were at the head of institutions that had assumed certain obligations that they called international, but also that they did not have much choice in this regard.

He says that the Albanian leaders believed that the Serbs, their political representatives as well as official Belgrade would eventually give up on the formation of the CSM, that they would get tired, accept to lethargically observe how the Serbs are disenfranchised, and forget what was signed in Brussels in 2013 and 2015.

"Of course, that did not happen and will not happen, and the Serb List, as a political representative of the Serbs, sent a clear message that without the formation of the CSM, as well as without the withdrawal of special ROSU units from the north of Kosovo and Metohija, there was no return to the institutions," Simic said.

He pointed out that, although a month had passed since the agreement on February 28, on the ground, apart from Albin Kurti and Vjosa Osmani's persistent refusal to start forming the CSM, nothing else had been heard from Pristina.

According to him, at the time when the Brussels Agreement had been signed in 2013, that is, in 2015, the Serbs had not had too many expectations from the official Pristina and the representatives of the Kosovo Albanians.

"Then and now, we had confidence in the leadership of the state of Serbia. At the first moment, we also had confidence in the European Union and believed that the EU would react and would not allow someone from Pristina to undermine the credibility of the EU for the sake of their cheap political points. Unfortunately, we are witnessing that in the last 10 years, it has been happening," Simic pointed out.

He added that Pristina had proved to be stronger and tougher than the European Union with all its members, and in some moments even stronger than those sitting in Washington.

Simic stated that the Brussels Agreement had defined the order of steps in the formation of the CSM and that in 2103 and 2015, four documents had been adopted regarding the formation of this Community.

"The first and basic agreement from 2013, in six out of 15 items, talks about the formation of the CSM, while the agreement from 2015 clearly regulates the principles, that is, the future competencies of the CSM, from which I would single out the most important ones for the Serbs. It is, above all, full supervision and health management, then the education sector, the third item is urban and rural planning and the fourth is economic development," Simic pointed out, adding that these were matters that were vitally important to the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija and without which they could not survive in Kosovo and Metohija.

According to him, the agreement in Brussels had defined that four people from the ranks of the Serbs living in Kosovo and Metohija would form the implementation team that would write the draft of the CSM statute; they had done so and had informed the official Brussels that the Draft of the Statute for the CSM had been written and that they were ready, on the invitation of Brussels, to come and present it to the negotiation teams of Belgrade and Pristina.

That, Simic stated, had not happened even to this day, even though Brussels knew that the work on the drafting of that statute had been completed.