The President of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, and Kosovo Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, will try pushing forward a unified agenda in tomorrow’s session of the Kosovo parliament with two proposals: one for adoption of the amendments for the creation of the special court and another one for creation of the Kosovo army. Pristina-based papers claim that authorities are trying to ‘buy’ opposition with such motion. However, the proposals can’t be adopted without the support of the Serbian List which is not going to support such scenario.
The director of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric said that the issue of Kosovo army will not, and cannot, be at the Kosovo parliament’s agenda because the issue of the presence of an armed forces in Kosovo is provide by the Kumanovo military agreement and UNSC Resolution 1244.
“The only armed forces that can be present in Kosovo and Metohija are KFOR and Army of Serbia, with consent of the KFOR commander. This topic was not brought in relation, neither official nor non-officially, with the creation of the community of Serb municipalities, which has to be created without further delays and additional conditions, because they are all fulfilled in line with the Brussels Agreement,” said Djuric to Belgrade-based Politika.
Minister for Communities and Return in the Kosovo government, Dalibor Jevtic, said the provincial government did not forward yet the proposal on unified voting to the Kosovo parliament, and reminded on the well-known principle of the Serbian List that its MPs will not vote for creation of the Kosovo army.
“Our coalition partners from Mustafa’s Democratic League of Kosovo and Thaci’s Democratic Party of Kosovo are informed about it. Creation of Kosovo army was not envisaged by the Brussels Agreement for this year and such development is not expected by the international community. We should discuss the creation of the Kosovo army before it is put on the parliament’s agenda,” said Jevtic to Politika and added that MPs from the Serbian List will vote for the creation of the special court for Kosovo Liberation Army war crimes.
The head of the Serbian List caucus in the Kosovo parliament Slavko Simic said that he opposed the proposal presented at the session of the Kosovo parliament’s presidency that amendments referring to transformation of the Kosovo Security Forces into Kosovo army are put on the parliament’s agenda for Thursday.
The Mayor of Gračanica/Graçanicë, Vladeta Kostic, argues that setting new conditions that were not on the Brussels agenda has become the practice of Kosovo Albanians.
“Entire story with regard to the army I see as a sort of testing of the pulse and compensation of political points that Albanian parties are losing due to creation of the special court,” said Kostic.
