Drecun: Platform must not close door to dialogue
Milovan Drecun, chairman of the Serbian parliament's Committee on Kosovo, said Tuesday it was very important that the platform for Kosovo does not close the door to the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, like Pristina did when it said it would not recognize anything other than independence.
(KosovoCompromiseStuff) Tuesday, December 18, 2012
"It is important to start the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and this platform must not close that door," Drecun said, noting that unless this happens very soon, Serbia would be faced with a project for the creatiion of a Greater Albania.
Drecun told reporters at the parliament that Serbia needed to take care of its people in Kosovo and that the platform would state that Serbia would not recognize the independence of its southern province or allow Kosovo to become a member of the UN.
One of the main stances in the platform will be that Serbia does not recognize secession, he said.
He also said Serbs had to have a self-government which would be financed by Belgrade, and that Belgrade needed to take care of its citizens not only in northern Kosovo but in the entire province.
Asked when the platform would arrive before the parliament, Drecun said he had no information, but he expected that after it was presented to the whips, it would be discussed by the Committee on Kosovo and then at a plenary session.
Responding to media speculation that northern Kosovo could get the broadest possible territorial and essential autonomy and become an entity similar to Republika Srpska (RS) in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Drecun said "it cannot be compared with RS, because RS is above the status which Kosovo has at the moment."
"Belgrade does not want to create a situation where someone could say some day that Kosovo is a state which wants to join the UN," said Drecun, adding that the platform included the idea that all Serb communities in Kosovo should have some kind of administration financed by Belgrade.
Drecun told reporters at the parliament that Serbia needed to take care of its people in Kosovo and that the platform would state that Serbia would not recognize the independence of its southern province or allow Kosovo to become a member of the UN.
One of the main stances in the platform will be that Serbia does not recognize secession, he said.
He also said Serbs had to have a self-government which would be financed by Belgrade, and that Belgrade needed to take care of its citizens not only in northern Kosovo but in the entire province.
Asked when the platform would arrive before the parliament, Drecun said he had no information, but he expected that after it was presented to the whips, it would be discussed by the Committee on Kosovo and then at a plenary session.
Responding to media speculation that northern Kosovo could get the broadest possible territorial and essential autonomy and become an entity similar to Republika Srpska (RS) in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Drecun said "it cannot be compared with RS, because RS is above the status which Kosovo has at the moment."
"Belgrade does not want to create a situation where someone could say some day that Kosovo is a state which wants to join the UN," said Drecun, adding that the platform included the idea that all Serb communities in Kosovo should have some kind of administration financed by Belgrade.
