The Director of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Đurić, claims that Brussels has to exert pressure on Pristina in order to start implementing the agreement on the Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities, taking into account that a year has already passed since the agreement was reached. He said to Radio Television Serbia (RTS) that Serbia has fulfilled its part of obligations in regard to this issue.

“Political agreements can’t be a sort of political imagination, this what they are saying about abolishing of our institutions, it is not written in any paper that was harmonized. They are inventing new ideas all the time, instead of implementing finally what they obliged themselves to do,” said Đurić and added that Serbia firmly stands behind what was agreed.

Đurić went on to say that despite political sparkles that are regularly coming from Pristina, the dialogue has important and useful role, because as long as there are talks tensions on the ground are smaller, and smaller the chances are for the violence to occur.

“We will talk about the implementation of the signed agreements and how to make relations with the provincial institutions better, in the frame of our general policy, and I think this is in the interest of both, Serbs and Albanians, no matter on differences in our positions on the status. One can’t live from these political sparkles of Edita Tahiri and Enver Hoxhaj, not even Albanians,” said Đurić and underlined big unemployment rate in Kosovo.

He reflected on Tahiri’s statement that Serbia will have to drop Kosovo from the Constitution before joining the EU, and added that Pristina should make Serbia part of the provincial constitution because this is the only way for it to be represented in the international community.
“It is about unserious political sparkle and something that is not contributing to normalization of relations,” said Đurić and added that Hoxhaj’s statement about demarcation of borders between Serbia and Kosovo is something that entire Serbian people, including Serb representatives, would never agree about. He also stressed that this won’t be topic of the dialogue in Brussels.