Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will seek an opinion from Brussels, before he presents his own proposal beginning of April, about what the EU leaders see as a possible compromise solution for resolving the issue of Kosovo, write today the Belgrade daily Danas.
Aleksandar Vucic said two days ago that he would speak at the beginning of March, at the latest in April, of the proposal of “the solution of Kosovo”. Interlocutors of the daily say that Vucic will seek the opinion of non-governmental organizations, including the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, Humanitarian Law Center, Yukom, and the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence, the Open Society Fund … on what they think and suggest as a solution to the Kosovo issue. He will also do this before he comes out with his own proposal.
The interlocutors claim that Vucic wants to hear all the parties concerned about this problem and to “extract what he considers to be the most important”.
Speaking and announcing his proposal for Kosovo, President Vucic has been saying for a number of weeks that he will demand a compromise and that, as he said, it cannot be that one side gets everything, and the other nothing. Two days ago, however, he said that if the compromise did not come, he would leave the “conflict frozen”.
“I will go out, because I was not a coward, I will have the courage to say what the proposal is, but it will not be: ‘Dear Albanians, we give you everything’, it will be a compromise. If they will not talk about it, we will have a frozen conflict,” Vucic said.
Danas recalls that until now, the only solution for which Aleksandar Vucic was positive about is the proposal of Vladan Kutlesic, professor of the Business and Law Faculty of the University Union – Nikola Tesla given during the process of the so-called “internal dialogue on Kosovo”.
“I’m surprised what Kutlesic was talking about. If we had this wisdom, 10, 15 or 20 years ago, some things might have been different,” Vucic said at the beginning of December last year. Kutlesic proposed a real union of independent states of Serbia and Kosovo, which would still remain interconnected. “My proposal presumes that Serbia recognizes Kosovo as an independent state, but it would remain in institutional ties with Serbia. It would be a customs union that would have a single market and a single monetary policy. In that case, the dinar does not have to be a single official currency, but it would be used as a means of payment in Kosovo too. This economic segment for Serbia is especially important because our products are still the most widely purchased in KiM, and the union would make the placement of Serbian products much easier,” Kutlesic explained his proposal, pointing out that “today there are examples of real unions in the world, as well as in the past. “
Whether Vucic was cynical or not, when he positively pleaded about the proposal of former Slobodan Milosevic adviser for Kosovo during the conflict, during the 1990s, it remains to be seen, Danas writes today. But the fact that this proposal, like the one on the division of Kosovo, or the line of demarcation, which Ivica Dacic largely talks about, unrealistically was assumed as acceptable not only for Kosovo but also for the European Union, writes Danas.
