Instead of finding their places at the table with the government representatives who have started an internal dialogue on Kosovo yesterday, participants of the debate “Internal dialogue or monologue,” organized by the Institute for European Affairs, debated on the same day at the Cultural Centre in Belgrade, KoSSev portal reported.
KoSSev further reported participants of the debate were critical while commenting the current internal dialogue on Kosovo.
Former chief of the negotiation team, Borislav Stefanovic defined the dialogue with a phrase “the village is burning, and the old lady combs her hair”. He also claims they are trying to find a solution, never found before, but in fact it is about a pure theoretical approach.
“I do not see what one could get from these talks, apart from covering up for Vucic’s moves and covering up for promises he made to someone,” Stefanovic said, adding that Vucic has promised to resolve the Kosovo issue.
The President of the European Serb Movement in Kosovo, Rada Trajkovic said she does not believe in dialogue, if the solution is prejudged, and this is something that the president of the state is doing. She illustrates this with Vucic stance that around 6 percent of Serbs live in Kosovo now, and that he legitimizes ethnic cleansing of Serbs and abolishes those who have committed that. Trajkovic also said that any opinion, if it was contrary to the concept of the first opinion in the state, was attacked, KoSSev reported.
Leader of the Social-Democratic League of Vojvodina, Nenad Canak, said he sees his place in these talks. “It is better to talk for hundred years, than to wage a war for one day. The one who is not for dialogue, should explain what he/she stands for, otherwise they are not legitimate interlocutors,” Canak said.
All three participants responded negatively to the question of Olja Beckovic, moderator of yesterday’s debate, whether they were invited to take part in the internal dialogue on Kosovo, however Stefanovic and Trajkovic said they do not see themselves as part of that dialogue either.
