Drecun: There is no chance of reaching the Belgrade-Pristina agreement in Ohrid - Kosovo Online
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The president of the Parliamentary Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan Drecun, points out that on March 18, at the meeting in Ohrid in North Macedonia, within the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, there will be no chance of achieving any significant progress, adding that Serbia remains firmly in the positionat it cannot accept and agree to "the membership of a fake state in the UN; we cannot recognize them in any way," RTS reports.
Serbia will not agree or remain silent on the issue of Pristina's entry into the United Nations, President Aleksandar Vucic said, nor will it recognize Kosovo's self-proclaimed independence.
The EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, said from Pristina that the Community of Serb-majority Municipalities would be formed according to one of 15 European models.
Milovan Drecun indicates that Miroslav Lajcak is not behaving in a way that would make it possible to reach any agreement between Belgrade and Pristina, especially with the statement "that now is not the time to form the Community of Serb-majority Municipalities."
"Well, how is it not? That is the primary condition we set, and it was also discussed at the previous meeting in Brussels. First, the implementation, the application of the agreement on the CSM from Brussels, and then everything else. Lajcak is now practically trying to defend Kurti's uncompromising stance, and on the other hand, the EU rewards him with visa liberalization," the president of the parliamentary committee points out.
In this sense, Drecun points out that instead of Pristina suffering appropriate punitive measures because, as he says, "Pristina otherwise does not understand the messages sent to it," they reward and encourage it to persevere in its positions.
Drecun believes that Lajcak is making contradictory statements that the CSM will not be formed on the basis of the Brussels Agreement but that some other modalities will now be sought in order, as he assesses, to allow Albin Kurti, due to criticism from the public and the opposition, to obtain any way out if he does not achieve mutual recognition.
"Our management team, which was formed in accordance with the agreement, informed Lajcak that the draft statute had been prepared in 2018 and twice more since then, most recently in April of last year. And all this time, he failed to convince Pristina that the draft statute should be considered. Don't explain the procedures to us now, but take the draft statute and put it on the agenda of the summit meeting between Presidents Vucic and Kurti, and then begin the process of forming the CSM," Drecun says.
What Serbia expects from the meeting in Ohrid
Commenting on Albin Kurti's statement "that he is going to Ohrid but that he will not accept the formation of the CSM," Drecun says that Kurti is a political adventurer.
"Instead of forming the CSM, he is taking a completely different path. Now he is going to Ohrid, so why are you going there, to try the Ohrid trout? Well, you can go on your own for that. The key point here is that some sort of agreement must be reached and progress must be achieved," Drecun emphasizes.
However, as for the meeting in Ohrid on March 18, he says that he does not expect anything from it, just as it was in Brussels.
"We will remain firm in our position that we cannot accept and agree with the membership of a fake state in the UN, and that we cannot recognize them in any way. I think that there will be no chance again to achieve any significant progress in Ohrid," Drecun concluded.
