Historian, Cedomir Antic, commenting on Vucic’s visit in Kosovo, told Danas daily his speech in Mitrovica North was a tip of a needless spectacle.
It seems the visit of Aleksandar Vucic in the north of Kosovo did not have significance, he attributed to it few days prior to the visit, Antic said, adding that the speech for which Vucic claimed would be the hardest and the most important in his career, turned to be an average literature exercise, slightly expanded than usual, with few more quotations then he is used to, Danas daily reported.
Antic underlined what is important is to realize that five years after the Vucic’s rule there is no proposal for the status of Kosovo and Metohija, the agreement is not even in a sight, and despite claims that delineation is the best solution, such proposal did not come out from internal dialogue on Kosovo, the President Vucic launched himself.
Alliance for Serbia said they are opposition to Vucic, but not to state and would gladly welcome concrete steps that protect Serbian state interests in Kosovo and Metohija, however there was nothing concrete during Vucic’s two-day visit in Kosovo.
A tribute was paid to Oliver Ivanovic, but his killers were not found. Gazivode lake is visited, but no plan on how to protect this extremely important state recourse was presented. Instead to spend the money on families who have several children, the money was used to place billboards with Vucic’s photos. People employed in schools and hospitals were forced to attend the rally, Alliance for Serbia said, Danas daily reported.
Journalist Zoran Panovic said what was expected from President Vucic could not be heard during his speech in Mitrovica North. Panovic underlined that “delineation” was not elaborated at all. He dismissed comparison of Vucic’s speech in Mitrovica North with that of Milosevic in Gazimestan.
“If Slobodan Milosevic held such a speech, it would be much better for all of us,” Panovic said, adding there was nothing concrete in Vucic’s speech, and what could be good in it is anti-Gazimestan rhetoric. There was also a noticeable absence of Church iconography, there were no Church dignitaries present, no symbolic. “This speech to me, resembled a combination of speeches by Vuk Draskovic and Cedomir Jovanovic,” Panovic said.
Rada Trajkovic, from European Serb Movement termed Vucic’s visit in Kosovo “as a visit at party’s level.” She underlined that no one from different political options was invited to the meetings. No one of Mitrovica North Municipal Assembly councils, other than Srpska Lista, were invited either. Entrepreneurs who attended the business forum in Leposavic were those loyal to Srpska Lista or Serbian Progressive Party (SNS)
“Not only that his speech is for the history, it is not even for the presence, let alone the future,” Trajkovic underlined.
