On Friday, the Assembly of Serbia should discuss the Government’s report on the progress of negotiations with Pristina. As Blic learns, an integral part of the document will be the Brussels agreement, but it will not be voted for it.
Yesterday, the Serbian government adopted the first agreement on the principles that are governing the normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina, which will be presented to the MPs by Prime Minister Ivica Dacic. The Government should outline the final version of the document, after which it will be forwarded to the Serbian Parliament. The report will refer to the Resolution on Kosovo and Metohija, and it will outline 15 points of the agreement that was reached a few days ago in Brussels.
“The Government is still considering whether those 15 points in the document should be called the agreement, or the principles of the agreement with Pristina. However, this is just a formality,” said our source.
The state parliament yesterday could not tell us whether the deputies will vote on the report of the Government, or it will be just debated. According to the resolution on K&M, the Government is obliged only to inform the MPs on the flow of negotiations, and not to present report for further voting.
If the MPs would vote, against will be only 21 DSS (Democratic Party of Serbia) MPs and one from the Democratic Party (Goran Bogdanovic, the former Minister for Kosovo and Metohija). Presidency of the Democratic Party left him the opportunity to decide how he will vote. “Watch the Assembly session and you will see,” says Bogdanovic.
In addition to DSS, all other opposition parties will support the Brussels agreement in the Serbian Parliament. Unlike them, the ruling parties yesterday did not want to declare whether they are for or against the agreement made with Pristina.
