MPs: Nikolic should prevent border with Kosovo

Serbian MPs Marko Jaksic and Borislav Pelevic called on Serbian Minister Tomislav Nikolic on Tuesday to prevent the establishment of a state border between Serbia and Kosovo.

(KosovoCompromiseStuff) Tuesday, November 20, 2012

During a joint news conference in the House of the Serbian National Assembly, Jaksic as an MP of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and Pelevic as an independent MP stated that the Agreement on integrated border management implies recognition of the unilaterally declared independence of Kosovo and added that the Serbian government should re-examine the agreements reached in Brussels and implement only those that are indubitably favourable for Serbia.

The implementation of this agreement is more dangerous than all the agreements reached in Brussels, Pelevic said and added that the government capitulated and adopted the decision to carry out all the agreements.

Jaksic stated that the Serbian president drastically changed the course compared to his pre-electoral rhetoric, and asked whether the reason for this is embodied in the pressures coming from the EU or the fact that KFOR is getting ready to banish Serbs from northern Kosovo.
"We want the Serbian president to address the people of Serbia and say why he cannot or does not want to prevent establishment of the border," Jaksic said and noted that he does not see the reason why the current government will not wait for the response of the Constitutional Court regarding the agreement on integrated border management on administrative crossings.

Jaksic announced that the assembly of the four Serb municipalities in northern Kosovo will decide on the mode of passive resistance to the establishment of the border in case the Serbian president does not meet with them or visit them soon.

The DSS MP added that representatives of the four northern Kosovo municipalities wanted to meet with the president on several occasions in the past four months, but Nikolic did not confer with them.