The Serbian List will request the postponement of the continuation of the constitutive session of Kosovo Assembly, which is due on Friday, said Marko Djuric, Director of the Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija.
“We want the Serbian List to participate in the (Kosovo) government which should be oriented toward the dialogue (with Belgrade),” Djuric said to journalist at the Palace of Serbia after the meeting with the delegation of the Committee for Enlargement of the European Council (CEOLA), and added that such government would have support of Belgrade and the international community.
Djuric reiterated Belgrade’s stance that dialogue must continue, but not in the form of two states – as some would wish, and not as talks which would prejudge the status, but as the dialogue which would contribute to normalization of relations and improve living conditions.
“I believe that upon the creation of the new provincial government, representatives of the Serbian List will seat in that government and that we will work with them, along with the others, on settling numerous problems,” Djuric said.
He introduced the representatives of CEOLA with the desire of Serbia for all elements of the Brussels Agreement to be implemented and that Serbian community in the province is economically and politically viable and strong.
Duric also said that Serbia is ready to present in a transparent manner all that is financed by Serbia in Kosovo and Metohija, and that it won’t give it up. He went on to say that “we can’t reach that goal until the issues of property in Kosovo and Metohija are not settled, be it the private or public one, and until we don’t have a solution for 247.000 expelled and internally displaced persons”.
He stressed that the talks were ‘quite frank and honest instead of a stiff diplomatic fashion’ and added that he described to delegation how the life of our people in Kosovo and Metohija looks like.
Djuric said that Belgrade wants dialogue between two sides to continue in Brussels with topics such as property and protection of the Serbian Orthodox Church and cultural heritage.
He added that they addressed and issues of the arrest and arrest warrants against Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija and that delegation was introduced with Belgrade’s clear stance with that regard. “I said unequivocally that our position is that EULEX mission should cooperate with the Serb community, exactly in the same manner and Serb community in Kosovo and Metohija should settle problems with that mission, through talks,” Djuric said.
