Marko Djuric said on Thursday that Pristina has created “a big international scandal” with its initiative “to assess the constitutionality of the Brussels agreement”. The director of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija also added, according to a Beta agency, that Pristina “trampled on the agreement” reached in 2013 during EU-sponsored Kosovo talks in Brussels “and threw it under the feet.”
Djuric said that the aim of assessing the constitutionality was in fact “to obstruct and prevent the formation of the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO),” and announced the Serbian Government will discuss the issue on its Friday session and will come out with the concrete steps. He added that he already discussed the issue with representatives of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, and that Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will speak with representatives of the international community and a delegation from Brussels that will visit Serbia on Friday. “This represents not one, but three steps back in the normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina, and it must not go without EU’s reaction, which is the guarantor of the agreement,” Djuric told reporters in the Serbian government.
Djuric pointed out that Pristina has not met most of its commitments under the Brussels agreement, “not only when it comes to the formation of the ZSO, but also the integration of the members of the police, recognition of university diplomas and an agreement regarding the Peace Park.”, and added that Serbia will pursue a struggle to protect its people and that reached agreements to be fully implemented.
