Citizens of Serbia should know what would be jeopardized, most dramatically, if decision is made that we set a Kosovo wall toward the EU and the West, said leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement and former foreign minister Vuk Draskovic.
“Entire Serbia would cruelly suffer, economic-wise and democracy-wise. Victim of the chaos, hopeless and decline of the state and the nation, would also be and Kosovo Serbs. Serbian Patriarch says: ‘Serbia without Kosovo is body without the head’. This means that Serbia is dead, that there is no Serbia for 15 last years. Serbia is in agony, the big one, but Serbia even without the lost Kosovo is a live, wants and has to live,” writes Draskovic in an op-ed published in Belgrade-based daily Danas.
According to him Serbia has to stand on its feet, reinforce, win powerful allies, untie itself from dead myths and from, unfortunately, still alive state of affairs that is to be blamed for loosing Kosovo’. He argues that if Serbia would go for a referendum to decide about either defending Kosovo or the EU membership, it is an obligation of the government and the Church, the parliament and Serbian Academy of Arts and Science and all media, to present the full truth about what is ‘defended’ and what would inevitably be the consequences of the choice to ‘defend Kosovo’.
“China is huge and powerful state which, along with Russia, in the United Nations Security Council ‘protects’ Kosovo as part of Serbia. One should reconsider profoundly whether it is very much friendly, if someone is encouraging you to defend what you don’t have, with the huge risk that you lose even what you have?,” writes Draskovic.
