Starovic: By setting conditions for the CSM, Kurti brazenly rejects the new European initiative

The senseless and in every way unenforceable demands by which Albin Kurti conditions the establishment of the Community of Serb-majority Municipalities essentially represent his rejection of the new European initiative since no new agreement can and will not be reached without the prior CSM establishment, Nemanja Starovic, State Secretary in the Ministry of Defense of the Government of Serbia, said for Kosovo Online.

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti presented six conditions for the Community of Serb-majority Municipalities formation yesterday at the session of the Assembly in Pristina.

In addition to the positions presented earlier, such as the one that the Community must be in accordance with the Kosovo Constitution and laws and that it cannot be uninational, which Kurti has now translated into conditions, he conditions the formation of the CSM, by changing its name, among other things, and by the withdrawal of Serbia's President's letters addressed to the officials of the five EU member states that do not recognize Kosovo, in which he asks them not to accept Pristina's application for the EU membership.

"Taking into account the fact that representatives of the US and other countries of the Quint have already started applying punitive measures against Pristina for refusing to finally establish the CSM, in the form of stopping the process of accession to the Council of Europe, we can expect that this Albin Kurti's impudent obstruction will result in Quint's further political measures to the prime minister of the temporary institutions of self-government. That is why it would be completely wrong to facilitate Albin Kurti's position and his regime in Pristina by our a priori rejection of the new European initiative, which would enable an even distribution of the failure responsibility on both sides," Starovic says.

As he adds, he believes that Serbia's response to Kurti's provocations must be a wise, thoughtful, and tactically impeccably guided politics, and it is up to the leader of the Self-Determination Movement, as he says, to finally face the consequences of his rigid, dogmatic and uncompromising approach to political reality.