Director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric said that Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija should be sure that no one will abolish Serbian institutions in the province, and that it certainly will not do provincial Minister for dialogue Edita Tahiri.
"We expect that Thaci will not be an obstacle and that he does not obstruct the formation of the Association / Community of Serb Municipalities (A/CSM). We expect that he, as a president, will constructively contribute to the stabilization in Kosovo, and in particular to improving the status of the Serbian people," said Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Kosovo and Metohija Milovan Drecun to the reporters in the Serbian parliament.
If the attempt to elect a new president for Kosovo fails, parliamentary elections will be automatically scheduled, and this will prolong the deadlock of the formation of the Association / Community of Serb Municipalities (A/CSM), to least until the summer. Even if Hashim Thaci were to gain the support required for his election as President, there is a possibility that he will soon dissolve the Assembly, as an answer to the political instability in Kosovo.
Serbs are only a decoration in the Kosovo parliament and government, serving the purpose of presenting Kosovo as a multi-ethnic place to the international community, said MP in the Serbian Parliament and former mayor of Mitrovica North, Krstimir Pantic. He added that despite this, if Serbs are smart, they will be able to ‘work-out Community of Serb-majority municipalities’.
President of the Active Serbia Dusan Janjic said that there is no giving up of the Agreement on the Association / Community of Serb municipalities (A/CSM) because it is an international document, to which Pristina committed. "I call on the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, not to impose solutions that are not agreed, and the EU High Representative Federica Mogherini to act and put an end to such behaviour of Pristina," said Janjic.
Commenting on the statement by the Kosovo Government Minister Edita Tahiri, that the Statute of the Association / Community of Serb Municipalities (A/CSM) will be drafted by Pristina and not Serbia, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić stated that he wonders whether the representatives of the two delegations were at the same meeting. However, he believes that Brussels officials know how to assess who speaks the truth. "For me regional stability is more important than cheap political points," said Vučić.
Kosovo Minister of Local Government Administration Ljubomir Maric said that the Serbs would rather present their own candidate for President of Kosovo, than support another candidate, stressing that the election of the President was never the subject of the coalition agreement. Maric said that no one spoke with Serb representatives about support for the presidential candidate, and responding to the question of whether they do have a candidate, he said: "We want the Community of Serb municipalities (ZSO)."
“Serbia expects that Brussels press Pristina over the formation of Association / Community of Serb municipalities (A/CSM) in the southern province. The Kosovo authorities again want to extend the deadlines,” said Milovan Drecun, the Head of the Serbian Parliamentary Committee for Kosovo.
"It is pointless to continue the negotiations in Brussels on Kosovo and Metohija until certain conditions are met. First, the Serbian delegation must not give up on requirements related to Association / Community of Serb municipalities (A/CSM)," said President of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) Vojislav Seselj.
Director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo Marko Djuric told RTS that Serbia has done a lot towards the normalization of relations with Pristina, stressing that at today’s round of talks in Brussels, Serbia expects that obligations set by previous agreements will be met. "In the last seven or eight months we have not seen Pristina implement the agreements and our pressure will be aimed in that direction," Djuric said.