Vetëvendosje deputy leader, Aida Dërguti, says that no one knows the amount of funds given during the last 15 years for integration of Serbs in Kosovo. Any project that has had the component of minority had priority towards all the other projects needed for the citizens. Unfortunately, enormous funds of the international community and other donators, resulted to be a failure, she says. Time is proving that not a single step forward has been made on this direction.
Serbs within Kosovo needed to cooperate with Kosovo institutions for a single reason: to create new Serb municipalities and complete legitimacy over Kosovo’s selected territories. So, enclaves, organized and planned in advance by Serbia, appeared as rehabilitated with creation of Serb municipalities. However, happiness of policy makers for the reached success was short. Knowing that April Agreement in Brussels does not represent the end of negotiations, Dacic needed an instrument such as CI Srpska to legitimize parallel structures and cram them into Kosovo institutions, without changing the intention to impede Kosovo’s state building. This step unified Serbs from the entire Kosovo in CI Srpska, which won nine municipalities in local elections. In the twinkling of an eye, Dacic ruined several years’ efforts made by the projects for multi-ethnicity and eliminated the other Serb parties from local government. Efforts to gloss over Serbia’s image went vain.
Dacic’s instrument now aims Kosovo’s Assembly. Representation of Serbs by this political party at local and central level guarantees progress to Dacic’s agenda for Kosovo. In other words, through CI Srpska, the Serbian state will be represented at Kosovo Assembly, without recognizing the state of Kosovo.
Therefore, one should not even think about a coalition partnership with this political party. Coalition with this party is a coalition with Dacic’s Chetniks, and it represents national treason. Therefore, Kosovo citizens should oblige political parties to state publically that they would not have Dacic’s CI Srpska for a partner in coalition government. It will be easier for the citizens to bring down the Government if the public statement is not respected, concludes Derguti.
