Internal dialogue on Kosovo without Serbs from Kosovo makes no sense, concluded participants at the roundtable organized by the Serb National Forum, representatives of different political parties and non-governmental organizations in Gracanica yesterday, KIM Radio reported.
As KIM Radio reported, although invited Serbian Government Office for Kosovo Director, Marko Djuric, Chair of the Srpska Lista, Goran Rakic, Kosovo Assembly Deputy Speaker, Slavko Simic, mayor of Gracanica, Vladeta Kostic and former Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister, Branimir Stojanovic did not attend the roundtable named “Internal dialogue – chance or farce”.
Oliver Ivanovic, said that the initiative to begin an internal dialogue is significant, but it has to include Serbs from Kosovo, foremost intellectual elite and those who think differently, as well as the Serbian Orthodox Church.
“Serbs from Kosovo welcomed the initiative on internal dialogue, but they are sceptical about it. We were deceived so many times and at the end it is about us. What state of Serbia and the government have the right to do is to decide in which direction Republic of Serbia and Kosovo would go, but not before hearing what we think about it. I think that in addition to us, Serbs from Kosovo, Serbian Orthodox Church must be at first lines, to be consulted in the first round,” Ivanovic said.
Deputy President of the Serb National Forum, Zivorad Lazic said the biggest problem are authorities in Serbia, who do not allow to Serbs in Kosovo to rightly and democratically choose or organize, adding that “Srpska Lista is imposed to Serbs in Kosovo”.
Momcilo Trajkovic, said that the intention of the Serbi National Forum is to prevent Vucic’s initiative for internal dialogue becoming a farce, KIM Radio reported.
