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Serbian Parliament Adopts Vague Report on Kosovo

Politiko 29 Maj 2019, 11:05

Serbian Parliament Adopts Vague Report on Kosovo

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The ruling majority in the Serbian parliament, on Tuesday, adopted a report on Kosovo which was presented by President Aleksandar Vucic, without offering anything in it about the manner in which the state intended to resolve this issue.

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Instead, the vague report which was comprised by the Office for Kosovo, for the most part, contains only a general view of the technical aspect of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina since 2013 onwards, and the report on “the work results” of that Office since 2014 to this day.

The absence of any kind of plan or proposal for the resolution of the Kosovo problem in the adopted report completely fits in with Vucic’s general modus operandi: the constant postponement and prolonging of any kind of concrete moves which would bring improvement, with at the same time claiming that everyone else – the Kosovo Albanians, the West or the nationalistically inclined Serbian public opinion – are those who are preventing him from resolving this problem.

After a two-day-long debate, in which only a handful of opposition MPs took part - not counting representatives of the parties which only act at being the opposition - the report was adopted with 145 votes in favor, four against, and 13 MPs did not vote.

The parliament has 250 seats.

The opposition MPs who are boycotting the parliament session said that the report was “disgraceful” since it did not offer any plan for the future or directions for the activity of the Serbian authorities, limiting itself to listing all that which is already quite familiar to the public.

Thus, the report on 82 pages also contains completely irrelevant information such as the one that, since 2013 in Kosovo, a total of “188 meetings were held, out of which 24 at the high political level, and that there was a total of 45 agreements signed on the political, technical and expert level”.

During the session, there were present in parliament, apart from the ruling majority, also the MPs of three parties which are not part of the ruling coalition, but are loyal to it - the Serbian Radical Party, the Liberal Democratic Party, and the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina.

Out of the true representatives of the opposition, there were present the MP of the group Movement for Serbia’s Salvation Djordje Vukadinovic, and MPs of the small Party of Modern Serbia, who had, because of the “importance of the topic”, interrupted their boycott of parliament in which they are taking part along with the other opposition parties.

Vukadinovic, commenting on the intrusion of the Kosovo police into north Kosovo on Tuesday morning, said that something like that was enabled by the Brussels agreement between Belgrade and Pristina from 2013, which was signed by the current authorities led by the Serbian Progressive Party and Vucic.

“Until the Brussels agreement [Kosovo special forces] could not rampage across north Kosovo. You are branding your predecessors in government for the problems in Kosovo and you point out their mistakes and omissions, (…) but during all that time the Kosovo police could not cross the Ibar River”, said Vukadinovic, one of the leading Serbian political analysts.

He also reminded that in 2013, the parliament adopted a resolution in which it is stated that every resolution of the issue of the status of Kosovo had to be in accordance with the Serbian Constitution and the UN Security Council Resolution 1244.

“This is a binding document of this parliament, and my question is whether the Resolution is still in force, whether today there will be a vote on something else and whether you still stand behind this, both the country and the Serbian government, that every solution has to be in accordance with the Constitution and Resolution 1244”, asked Vukadinovic.

Leader of the conservative movement Dveri, Bosko Obradovic, who did not attend the session, also stated on Tuesday that “until Vucic’s arrival to power [the Kosovo police] did not dare place a foot in the north of Kosovo. Since his arrival and the signing of anti-Constitutional Brussels agreements, [the Kosovo police] enters normally and does whatever it wants. This is the best image of Vucic’s authority”.

“There isn’t a single victory in the seven years of his rule, only defeats in everything he has done. He is a political blind man. Even today he sits and keeps silent and does not dare to send security forces” to north Kosovo, Obradovic said.

In answer to Vukadinovic’s criticisms of the Brussels agreement, Vucic said that with that agreement “what could be saved was saved, without essentially losing anything” and denied that it had created conditions for the Kosovo police to freely enter into the north of Kosovo.

Vucic said that ever since the signing of the agreement “peace has been preserved in Kosovo” and that there had already been intrusions of the Kosovo police into the north even prior to the arrival of the SNS to power in 2012 - specifically in July 2011.

“I feel responsible for the Brussels agreement even though I did not sign it [this was done by his coalition partner Ivica Dacic] and I am proud that after that we had six years of peace and that Serbian interests were not in any way brought into jeopardy”, he said.

Vucic also said that he was skeptical towards the idea of organizing a peace conference at which to resolve the Kosovo issue since at such a meeting Serbia would be brought “into an impossible position”.

“I am afraid that at this meeting behind closed doors, only very little and not enough would be offered, and that we wouldn’t be able to in any way say that this does not fulfill the smallest requests of the Serbian side”, he said.