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Drecun: There is no chance of reaching the Belgrade-Pristina agreement in Ohrid 
- Kosovo Online


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The president of the Parliamentary Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan 
Drecun, points out that on March 18, at the meeting in Ohrid in North 
Macedonia, within the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, there will be no 
chance of achieving any significant progress, adding that Serbia remains firmly 
in the positionat it cannot accept and agree to "the membership of a fake state 
in the UN; we cannot recognize them in any way," RTS reports. 


Serbia will not agree or remain silent on the issue of Pristina's entry into 
the United Nations, President Aleksandar Vucic said, nor will it recognize 
Kosovo's self-proclaimed independence.

The EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, Miroslav 
Lajcak, said from Pristina that the Community of Serb-majority Municipalities 
would be formed according to one of 15 European models.

Milovan Drecun indicates that Miroslav Lajcak is not behaving in a way that 
would make it possible to reach any agreement between Belgrade and Pristina, 
especially with the statement "that now is not the time to form the Community 
of Serb-majority Municipalities."

"Well, how is it not? That is the primary condition we set, and it was also 
discussed at the previous meeting in Brussels. First, the implementation, the 
application of the agreement on the CSM from Brussels, and then everything 
else. Lajcak is now practically trying to defend Kurti's uncompromising stance, 
and on the other hand, the EU rewards him with visa liberalization," the 
president of the parliamentary committee points out.

In this sense, Drecun points out that instead of Pristina suffering appropriate 
punitive measures because, as he says, "Pristina otherwise does not understand 
the messages sent to it," they reward and encourage it to persevere in its 
positions.

Drecun believes that Lajcak is making contradictory statements that the CSM 
will not be formed on the basis of the Brussels Agreement but that some other 
modalities will now be sought in order, as he assesses, to allow Albin Kurti, 
due to criticism from the public and the opposition, to obtain any way out if 
he does not achieve mutual recognition.

"Our management team, which was formed in accordance with the agreement, 
informed Lajcak that the draft statute had been prepared in 2018 and twice more 
since then, most recently in April of last year. And all this time, he failed 
to convince Pristina that the draft statute should be considered. Don't explain 
the procedures to us now, but take the draft statute and put it on the agenda 
of the summit meeting between Presidents Vucic and Kurti, and then begin the 
process of forming the CSM," Drecun says.

What Serbia expects from the meeting in Ohrid

Commenting on Albin Kurti's statement "that he is going to Ohrid but that he 
will not accept the formation of the CSM," Drecun says that Kurti is a 
political adventurer.

"Instead of forming the CSM, he is taking a completely different path. Now he 
is going to Ohrid, so why are you going there, to try the Ohrid trout? Well, 
you can go on your own for that. The key point here is that some sort of 
agreement must be reached and progress must be achieved," Drecun emphasizes.

However, as for the meeting in Ohrid on March 18, he says that he does not 
expect anything from it, just as it was in Brussels.

"We will remain firm in our position that we cannot accept and agree with the 
membership of a fake state in the UN, and that we cannot recognize them in any 
way. I think that there will be no chance again to achieve any significant 
progress in Ohrid," Drecun concluded.

 

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