“I am against that Serbs in Gracanica are eradicated, and the area to be populated by Albanians from the north of Kosovo or Presevo Valley. This is that fascist project Vucic, Thaci and Rama are embracing, Kosovo Assembly MP Ilir Deda said. Meanwhile, journalist Zivojin Rakocevic thinks that the dialogue is “stillborn.”
These remarks were made in a debate about Belgrade-Pristina dialogue held in Gracanica yesterday, RTV KIM reports.
Deda also criticized politics that Serbian and Kosovo presidents are leading, supported by the EU High Representative Federica Mogherini.
Rakocevic said the Brussels dialogue is “stillborn” since according to him, immediately after the first decisions were made there was less freedom in the lives of Serbs. He claims that European values were minimized, and nobody speaks any longer about democracy and human rights, but about peace and stability.
State Secretary in the Serbian Ministry of Economy, and former Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Branimir Stojanovic thinks the biggest problem in Brussels negotiations is related to the implementation of what the two sides have agreed upon.
Agon Maliqi thinks the Brussels dialogue run into a crisis, because technical agreements that were reached have lost their meaning.
“The EU is now insisting on one comprehensive and final agreement, since it sees it as the only way to progress in the process of integration, but the EU does not know if this European perspective would happen at all. Meanwhile, the USA thinks there is great danger for the region if the Kosovo issue is not resolved, and that is why they ask for this final agreement now,” Maliqi added.
Participants also discussed about the tariffs on goods from central Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. For Ilir Deda such Pristina’s measures “are normal”.
Zivojin Rakocevic, however, disagreed, saying that trade was ongoing without interruption even during the war clashes, and that introduction of the taxes meant direct shooting to the basic, miserable and small living interests of the people here and shooting at the European values as well.
The debate was organized by the Forum for Multi-Ethnic Cooperation and Development and supported by the Kosovo Open Society Foundation, RTV KIM added.
