The chairperson of the Serbian parliament’s Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan Drecun assessed that resolution on Serb genocide against Albanians during the conflict in 1999 is a message to Serbs MPs not to return to Kosovo parliament.
“Is that message, sent first of all to Serb MPs not to return to the parliament in order that decision is not adopted on creation of the special court, that is due to try members of the terrorist KLA, (Kosovo Liberation Army) first of all a wish of Hashim Thaci to marginalize entire story about the special court,” said Drecun.
Political analyst Dusan Janjic says that this initiative is in relation with the announced adoption of the law on special court for war crimes. He warned on another aspect of that motion.
“If that resolution passes in the parliament it will become the document and as such it will make more problems to Kosovo,” said Janjic and added that it might influence on relations with Serbia and integration of Serbs. He went on to say that it will for sure jeopardize the Brussels Agreement.
MPs and officials from the Serbian List don’t participate in the work of Kosovo institutions as of February, following the dismissal of than minister for communities and return Aleksandar Jablanovic, after he labeled as savages those who threw stones on displaced Serbs who visited Djakovica/Gjakovë on the occasion of Orthodox Christmas in January.
Earlier this week, the Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti said that Kosovo cannot sue Serbia for genocide before the ICJ considering that it is not a member of the UN, and could only do so “on a special recommendation of the Security Council.”
However, the newspaper quoted experts, even if Pristina managed to achieve this, the court would “almost certainly declare that it had no jurisdiction in the matter.”
Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic on Friday commented on the news out of Pristina in a statement for RTS:
“That’s a pamphlet – third year law students learn that only a state can be a party in front of the International Court of Justice, and Kosovo is neither a state, nor a UN member.”
