Serbia and Kosovo: the rush with implementation
On May 10, over three thousand people in the Serbian capital participated in a rally in support of Kosovo Serbs, that is, against the well-known April Brussels agreements with Pristina. As passed correspondent ITAR-TASS Stanislav VarivodaDemonstrators, including representatives of the Serbian Orthodox Church, right-wing political parties and social movements, including the Democratic Party of Serbia, the Serbian Radical Party, the Doors, Obraz and Nashi organizations, expressed dissatisfaction with the government’s policies.
Banners with the inscriptions “Kosovo is Serbia”, “Liberate Kosovo!”, “No frontier!” traditional Albanian headdresses clearly spoke about the position of the protesters.
The protesters expressed their protest rather boldly and in an original way, if not to say outrageous.
For example, at the very beginning of the rally, Metropolitan of Montenegrin and Primorsky Amphilochius served a memorial service for the rest of the government and parliament.
Speaking about the activities of Nikolic, Dacic and Vucic, the former Bishop of the TWC Atanasii (Yevtic), said that "these three are traitors who do not believe in God, but believe in the guarantees of NATO." The ex-bishop continued: “Dacic says that he is only interested in earthly politics, and not in heaven. So said the Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, who knows what he has completed, and God will judge him. ” As you know, Mr. Djindjic was shot dead by a sniper in 2003 on the steps of the Government House.
Recall, 19 of April in Brussels, the Prime Ministers of Serbia and the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo, Ivica Dacic and Hashim Thaci, initialed an agreement on the normalization of bilateral relations. As Mr. Thaci remarked on that day, initialing means recognizing the independence of Kosovo. He proudly told the press that: “The treaty, which the representatives of the two states initialed, is de jure a recognition of Kosovo by Serbia”. At the same time, Hashim Tachi hurried those countries that have not yet recognized the independence of the region: it’s time for all of you to do it. He made it clear to the UN that the new republic was going to join the international organization.
For his part, Mr. Vucic told reporters that in the final version of the treaty all proposals from Belgrade were accepted.
In the north of Kosovo lives about 130.000 Serbs. The province is under the protectorate of the United Nations. As you know, this region unilaterally declared itself independent from Serbia in February 2008 of the year. To date, the 99 UN member states of 193 have recognized its independence. As for the European Union, the independence of Kosovo is recognized by twenty-two of the twenty-seven states. Not all NATO member countries recognize Kosovo, but only 24 from 28.
Serbia, Russia, China, India, Brazil, South Africa, Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Greece, Ukraine, and Belarus do not want to recognize Kosovo as an independent state. Most of the countries of Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia also do not want to recognize the independence of the region.
The signing of the 19 of April paper in Brussels delighted the whole EU, starting with Baroness Ashton, who successfully (and not for the first time) mediated during the negotiations.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the parties to "take concrete measures for the responsible implementation of the agreement," which is a milestone in bilateral relations.
According to US Secretary of State John Kerry, the agreement "required a compromise and courage on both sides."
And only the Kosovo Serbs for some reason were not happy - neither the “compromise” nor the “courage”.
Peter Iskenderov ("Fund of Strategic Culture") recalled that Prime Minister Dacic tried to keep “a good face on a bad game”: in his opinion, there is no reason to talk about the betrayal of Serb national interests. The Serb community in Kosovska Mitrovica will be able to "have their own property, bank account, assembly, president, vice president and council, which is a kind of government." But the essence of the problem is that all these bodies and institutions will henceforth operate within the administrative regime of the Kosovo state.
Therefore, one should not be surprised at the statement of Hashim Thaci, who announced that the signed document is a de jure recognition of Kosovo by Serbia.
V. Kostunica, head of the Democratic Party of Serbia, which opposes the entry of Serbia into NATO, negatively evaluated the signed agreement between Belgrade and Pristina. His words are quoted IA "REX", referring to the Serbian Beta news agency: The EU. This power is the killer of the state because it destroyed the Serbian state institutions in Kosovo. ”
According to Kostunica, neither NATO aggression, nor Western states could bring the Serbs as much evil as the Serbian authorities cause their own people today. Having ascertained 19 on April that Vucic and Dacic in Brussels "came out against Serbia and their people," V. Kostunica called for "to begin by peaceful means to resist open and shameless violence against Serbia."
Here we must understand that the initialing of the agreement is necessary for Belgrade for the future entry of the country into the European Union. Despite the crisis in the EU, the Serbian leadership for some reason believes that not only loans will flow into the country, but also foreign investments, due to which something like a Serbian economic miracle will occur. For the Serbian authorities, neither Greece, nor Cyprus, nor Italy with Spain, which are next in line for “expropriation,” are not examples. Such a strange belief - it is faith, and not an economic understanding of the situation - not only Kosovo Serbs pushes the right thought that it’s unclean.
“Our political elite has grown together with the Brussels and Washington establishment,” quotes Olga Churakova ("Century") the words of the Belgrade political scientist and publicist Slobodan Antonych. - It does not allow itself to even think about some alternative. Any serious state, when it comes to important things, develops the so-called "Plan B". And ours have only one thing in mind - the European Union or death. ”
A Serbian political analyst explains: “It is regrettable that public opinion in Serbia forms foreign capital. And the fact that we are so corrupt that we do not even notice it. ” He hints at the fact that the owners of the main media in Serbia are large Western media companies, and the most influential NGOs are financed from foreign funds.
Valentin Makov ("Lenta.ru") said that the agreement of April 19 will allow the integration of the Serbian communities into the power structure of Kosovo while simultaneously granting them autonomy. An association that unites communities would be able to independently develop the economy of the region, build its infrastructure, and also determine the policy in the field of education and health care.
Centralization will affect police forces and the judicial system, which will be subject to Pristina. True, the Serbs are promised a significant degree of independence: the personnel of the police and the courts should reflect the distribution of ethnic groups in the region (98% of employees will be Serbs, the remaining 2% - Albanians); The police in the north of Kosovo will be headed by a representative of the Serb community, appointed on the proposal of the newly formed Association of Serb Cities. Albanian security services will be allowed access to the north of Kosovo only in the event of natural disasters, and then only with the permission of the NATO region monitor.
At first glance, everything is not bad, that is, Ivica Dacic knew what he signed. But this is only at first glance. It must be remembered that the goal of both the West and Hashim Thaci is the complete independence of the region, which was formed at the EU level. The price for this independence, from which Thaci will not back down, is the supposed (even unreal) entry of Serbia into the EU, which can be followed by loans and investments, and the outlines of that inconvenient road that President Boris once led will be outlined in general Yeltsin with his magnificent reform team, full of educated economic geniuses. The Serbian people know that this will only make it worse, which is why it proclaims slogans at protest actions: “Kosovo is Serbia” or “Serbia, and then everything else!” Very eloquent slogans, it should be noted.
Jovan Palalic, deputy chairman of the parliamentary faction of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DPS), member of the Serbian-Russian friendship group of the People’s Assembly of Serbia, 14 told the correspondent in May "Parliamentary newspaper" Alexey Kornilov: “The government is in a hurry with the application of the contract, since the timing of Belgrade’s accession to the EU depends on the activity on its implementation. Meanwhile, neither in Belgrade, nor in Brussels, no one has yet responded, by what laws citizens of a single state can be deprived of the right to live in their own country or forced to get a passport of another power, which is also hostile to potential new members of society. ”
Meanwhile, the surrender of the interests of the Kosovo Serbs continues. According to observers IA "REX", Alexander Vucic began an active campaign to solve the Serbian problem in one package: not only in the north of Kosovo, but also in the Republika Srpska in Bosnia, in Croatia and Montenegro. It seems that we are talking about a package of measures prescribed by the "patient" of Brussels.
Here are the directions for the complex treatment of the “sick”: first, statements by President Nikolic that the Montenegrin Serbian Orthodox Church is to be reconciled with the local self-proclaimed ROC “Montenegrin Orthodox Church”, then support for the elections of M. Djukanovic, who is pursuing the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro.
As for Vucic, during the short visit to Belgrade, having left the negotiations with the Kosovo Serbs, this “real head of the Belgrade regime” suddenly found himself in Croatia. He spoke there about coming to celebrate the coming accession of Croatia to the EU and at the same time refused to meet with the permanent leader of the local Serbs M. Pupovce, who always attended meetings of the leadership of Croatia and Serbia.
Observers of the news agency “REX” also note that, celebrating 9 on May as “Europe Day”, Mr. Vucic himself wrote a text entitled “Serbs need to be in Europe!”, In which he repented of his own nationalistic delusions of youth, painted the charms of the EU and called Serbia "to change its attitude towards Europe and the Western world, as well as to Russia, which should be further respected, at the same time ceasing to indulge in illusions."
The campaign unleashed in the Serbian media controlled by A. Vucic and the West against the Serbian Orthodox Church and against its leaders from Montenegro - Metropolitan Amfilochia and from the Republika Srpska in Bosnia - Bishop Gregory also looks unpleasant. All this is undoubtedly due to the fact that the TWC strongly criticizes the “package deal” (see the statements of representatives of the church above).
Anna Filimonova ("Fund of Strategic Culture") highlighted another important point of the Brussels Agreement from 19 April, which prescribes in the text only four Serbian communities of the north of the region. Communities south of the Ibr River are considered Kosovar by default. The political process in the self-proclaimed “Republic of Kosovo”, the author writes, follows the line of denying the Serbian communities and creating a privileged position for the communities created by the results of local elections in the “Republic”. The allegations of granting special status to the Serbian Communities are refuted by the clause of the agreement on holding local elections in 2013 under the laws of Pristina. In order to take part in this election, the Serbs of the north will have to apply for citizenship of the “Republic of Kosovo”. Otherwise, the elections will not take place, and the “Serb communities” will not be formed, which will allow Pristina to impart any character to the administrative-territorial structure of its “republic”. Consent to participate in such elections will mean the integration of the north and the dissolution of all Serbs in the “Republic”.
Correspondents of the trade union newspaper "Solidarity" A. Tsvetkov and A. Klyashtorin visited the north of Kosovo and tried to form an opinion about what constitutes “the youngest state in Europe”. Here is a fragment from their report:
"For there is no turning back from here," says colorful graffiti on one of the houses. The abundance of graffiti is the first thing that catches your eye here: calls for barricades, inscriptions “Death to the Albanians!”, Portraits of young men killed in clashes, the names of a dozen right-wing Serbian organizations. Burned houses can be seen a little further away. <...> Strong, attentive guys drink mineral water and eat ice cream in kafans with a good view of the "bridge of enmity", and they seem to be sitting for a reason, but just in case.
The same robust men without uniform, but in ankle boots, will see us off when we go back to the Bosnian mahalla. <…> Here warring communities come into contact, and therefore various unpleasant events often occur. Literally a day before the text was put in print, unknown persons tried to blow up one of the Bosnian houses with a grenade. A little earlier, two teenagers - a Serb and a Goranian - were wounded here by the Albanians. So they live. "
And the European Union suppresses Belgrade: it's time to move from theory to practice. This Dachichu recently hinted Baroness Ashton.
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