Director of the Forum for Ethnic Relations Dusan Janjic said, visiting the N1 show ”Dan Uzivo”, that the commitment of Serbia in the future – to go to the EU or against the EU – is more important than the Kosovo issue. This, he says, implies the recognition of reality, which does not mean recognition of independence, but means accepting Kosovo in the UN without the opposition of Serbia.
The first session of the Working Group to Support Internal Dialogue on Kosovo was held. The Chairman of the Working Group is the Director of the Office for Kosovo, Marko Djuric, and consists of representatives of all ministries, the Office for Cooperation with Civil Society and the Republic Secretariat for Legislation.
Janjic told N1 that the internal dialogue is not, as Marko Djuric said, the hardest job the state has faced in recent years, but that it was the signing of the first framework Brussels agreement in 2013. According to him, Serbia has not yet reached the point of the most important state issue, and that is determination in the future – whether it will go to the EU or against the EU.
Janjic believes that this issue is more important than the Kosovo issue, and that it defines the fate of this government, and he states that from 2015 the pro-Russian and anti-European rhetoric is growing.
“If you want to join the EU, you have to change the current rhetoric – ‘(Resolution) 1244’, ‘so-called. Self-proclaimed country ‘, ‘Serbian province’… It should be said, ‘Dear citizens, in 2013 we created a framework for spreading the sovereignty of Kosovo throughout the territory'”, Janjić said to N1.
The problem, however, is that much of the mythological entered into the policy which has maintained on the constructed reality of Kosovo, assesses the interlocutor of N1, and feels that the recognition of reality for Vucic could be a shoot in his own leg, and which it could lead him to lose power.
And recognition of reality, in his words, does not mean recognition of the independence of the province, but the non-disturbance of Kosovo’s accession to international organizations. Which, Janjić said, means and Kosovo joining the United Nations without the opposition of Serbia.
“Only then the formula of the “two Germanies” works; only then your obligations towards Berlin are paid, and that is the minimum that you have to do,” he says.
Janjic also says that Vucic’s problem – how much he understood from contacts with “well-informed circles” – that he cannot determine what Serbia can get in return.
Janjic also believes that Vucic’s invitation to internal dialogue is wrong, because general ethno-nationalist mobilization will occur and space will be open to various foreign and domestic interest groups to “play in Serbia.”
Janjic does not expect the opposition to engage in internal dialogue, but also believes that it will not say “no” to Kosovo’s topics, but will open its parallel dialogue, or dialogue on dialogue.
