Vučić in five points: "Paying with Kosovo for tolerating autocracy"
The deterioration of the situation in Kosovo, and a whole series of activities of the authorities in Pristina that caused new tensions, were the reason for a new "special address" by the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić.
With this, Vučić tried in some way to stop the criticism of the opposition, which warned all summer that the Serbian authorities are doing nothing to stop the persecution of Serbs and Serbian institutions in Kosovo.
It was even speculated that the regime's media were instructed to write as little as possible about the subject of Kosovo, and instead to force the topic of lithium mining.
Criticism culminated in the past few weeks because, instead of the official position of the authorities, Aleksandar Vučić organized a media-political caravan around Podrinje and baked pancakes for soldiers while Pristina dismantled the last signs of the presence of Serbian institutions in Kosovo.
Five points of Belgrade
The President of Serbia came out to the public with a five-point plan. He again spoke about the supposed hypocrisy of the West, and stated that Serbia will oppose it everywhere in the international arena.
As the first point, he stated the return to the previous situation - the holding of local elections in the north of Kosovo, the return of Serbian judges and prosecutors, the withdrawal of special forces of the Kosovo police from the north, the immediate formation of the Union of Serbian Municipalities, the release of all "political prisoners" and the facilitation of payment transactions.
Political analyst Dragomir Anđelković notes that in this way Vučić is trying to shift his blame to the West.
"The Western countries that have recognized Kosovo are of course helping the process of Kosovo's independence, but the problem is when the president of Serbia helps them in that. Each time he was allegedly cheated, he continued to make concessions. So Vučić is paying with Kosovo for tolerating his autocratic rule," Anđelković told DW.
If by return to the previous situation, Vučić means the situation before the Serbs withdrew from Kosovo's institutions, our interlocutor reminds us: "Vučić called on the Serbs to withdraw from Kosovo's institutions and to lose the local government they had."
"He directly pushed the Serbs into the abyss, and now he expects that he will be the victim, and that the whole nation sympathizes with him. Now it depends on Washington and Brussels whether they will pressure Kosovo to do it, but when you make such a geopolitical mistake, others don't correct it for you," Anđelković believes.
Money does not buy security
The next point of Vučić's plan is the declaration of Kosovo as an area of special social protection, which will guarantee the right to financial support for the unemployed, free textbooks, money for snacks and the like.
Dragomir Anđelković sees this move "as Vučić's attempt to buy the Serbs in Kosovo with money, to offer them money to survive and stay, but money cannot buy security. So if the first point is not fulfilled, it will be difficult to keep the Serbs in Kosovo in this way."
The resilience of Serbian institutions is the next point, according to which, as Vučić says, "Serbian institutions will not be relocated", but they will get modern offices that will be a kilometer from Zubina potok and Rudnica.
"These are now institutions in exile," Anđelković notes. "Of course, Serbia will not close its institutions, but Kurti mostly closed them, and that is no compensation for the previous situation, it is a complete defeat."
How to arrest Clinton and Blair?
Belgrade intends to form a special prosecutor's office, which will prosecute all those who "expel" Serbs from Kosovo and threaten their human rights. This includes the Serbs who participate in it.
As the last point, the decision was made that all decisions of Pristina, which are contrary to the Brussels Agreement, will be declared illegal.
Dragomir Anđelković notes that this is about "old socialist-radical platitudes"
"We remember that at one time Milosevic prosecuted Clinton, Blair, and who knows who else. Of course, nothing came of it. The only ones who can suffer now are the Serbs, the opponents of Vučić's government, who will be accused of collaboration with Pristina."
The Brussels Agreement instead of the Constitution
When it comes to the non-recognition of decisions that contradict the Brussels Agreement, Anđelković draws attention to the fact that the state of Serbia is being degraded here:
"The central point must be respect for the Constitution of Serbia. It is a much more important document than the Brussels Agreement. That's why Vučić is talking about him, and not about the Serbian Constitution, according to which, by accepting the French-German plan, he undermines the integrity of Serbia and accepts the de facto independence of Kosovo."
Predsednik Srbije Aleksandar Vučić izašao je sa planom od pet tačaka kao reakcijom na dešavanja na severu Kosova. Politički analitičar Dragomir Anđelković za DW kaže da ceo plan jalovo prikriva Vučićevu odgovornost.
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