Milovan Drecun, Chairman of the Committee for Kosovo of the Assembly of Serbia, told regional broadcaster N1 that it was uncertain whether dialogue in Brussels would continue by the end of this month, but that the more important question is what will be discussed and whether a move will be made.
“Everything is uncertain and unpredictable because of Pristina’s behaviour, it is possible that there will be a dialogue, but the question is what will be discussed and what we can agree on. If the two sides remain in their positions and do not make a move, then you must ask yourself what the purpose of is all that, “he said.
Serbia is now at a turning point, Drecun assesses.
“Are we going to continue to discuss open issues, or to go to the core question – how to solve the Kosovo problem,” he adds.
Drecun says that he does not see a long-term and stabilizing solution for Kosovo without an international conference.
“We are approaching the moment when we will have to sit down and to solve the issue of Kosovo again,” he says, adding that Serbia proposes to hold a serious discussion and, in an agreement, to solve the problem.
The US and Russia are necessary
Drecun says that the US and Russia are necessary participants in the process of resolving the issue of Kosovo.
“No agreement between Belgrade and Pristina could be realized without the USA, but any solution for Kosovo cannot be verified in the UN without Russia, so they are referred to as participants who need to be involved,” he says.
He also says that he did not have any knowledge on Belgrade receiving US proposals for Kosovo. “I would not refer to media headlines, I do not know about it.”
Drecun believes that the wave of violence in Kosovo most likely is linked with the approach of a new phase of talks on the status of Kosovo.
“When you look at what’s happening lately, the activities that are being implemented and intrusion into Mitrovica, the behaviour of Kosovo security forces, the interplay of NATO with the formations of the Kosovo Security Forces, you see that there are preparations for eventual action in the north of Kosovo, and the establishment of admistrative controls in the north of Kosovo. We must protect our people, and preventively send a message that their plans will not come out of our sight,” he says.
I do not know who Radoicic is, I do not know what Dolovac is doing …
He says that he does not know whether Prosecutor Zagorka Dolovac had spoken in Pristina with a representative of the Special Prosecutor’s Office of Kosovo about the course of the investigation into the murder of the leader of the SDP Citizen’s Initiative, Oliver Ivanovic, as media reported.
“It’s not my job to be interested in what Zagorka Dolovac is doing,” he says.
He also says that he does not know who Milan Radoicic is, the elected deputy of the Serbian List.
“How many members the Serbian List has … I do not know, I do not know who Radoicic is. I’ve read in newspapers that he is being blamed for something. It is not the subject of my interests what the Serbian List does in terms of staff. I do not know what the importance of that gentleman is”, he says.
