Serbs in Kosovo must start establishing the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO), according to Civic Initiative SDP leader Oliver Ivanovic.
Ethnic Albanians’ opposition to the formation of this community, agreed on during the EU-sponspored Belgrade-Pristina talks, “will subside only when they realize that it will be formed with or without them,” Ivanovic said in a letter he wrote in prison.
It is evident that Pristina will drag its feet on establishing the Community, mostly because the Kosovo authorities realize that resisting the process is one of the key topics on the opposition’s agenda, he stated.
“I think that there is no reason to wait for good will from Pristina, because there will never be good will. Pristina will constantly be setting conditions for establishing the Community”, wrote Ivanovic.
More concessions will be demanded from Serbia despite the fact that concessions have already been made during the negotiations on the Community, reads the letter, handed to Kosovska Mitrovica’s Kontakt Plus Radio by Ivanovic’s lawyer.
Ivanovic has been sentenced to nine years in prison for war crimes committed in Kosovska Mitrovica in 1999. His defense has appealed against the first-instance ruling with the Pristina court of appeals.
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