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Kosovo's membership in the Council of Europe, Vučič: I expect bad news for us, we were deceived!

2024-03-17 13:33:14Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Kosovo's membership in the Council of Europe, Vučič: I expect bad news
The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic

The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, said on Sunday that he expects "only bad news" for his country and that Serbia will change its approach to the dialogue with Kosovo, which is mediated by the European Union (EU).

"I will explain how we were deceived, where and how some so-called friends lied to us, and many others, and this has to do with Kosovo's membership in the Council of Europe (CEE)," said Vučič.

Vucic, speaking about Kosovo's membership in the EC, said that "we told them what would happen if this happened. Because they think they have the right to interpret the agreement in a false way, not wrongly or however they want, but falsely".

"It will be very difficult for us, because someone's goal is to push the Serbian people as far away from Kosovo as possible", he added.

In the agreement reached at the beginning of 2023 for the normalization of relations with Kosovo, Serbia is required, among other things, not to obstruct Kosovo's membership in the Council of Europe.

Kosovo hopes that it will be able to join the Council of Europe, since on March 13 the Government of Albin Kurti asked the Cadastral Agency to transfer 24 hectares of land in the name of the Monastery of Deçan. Prime Minister Kurti said that the implementation of the Constitution's decision on land would be decisive for Kosovo's admission to the EC, during the Parliamentary Assembly of this institution, which will be held in April.

If Kosovo receives the green light in the Parliamentary Assembly, then the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe must give the last word - which the Government expects to happen in May.

In that case, it is possible that the membership in the Council of Europe will be conditional on other issues as well.

The deputy assistant to the US Secretary of State, Gabriel Escobar, told Radio Free Europe on Friday that there are several European countries that are demanding two more conditions for Kosovo's membership. "One has to do with some actions for the expropriations that are being done in the north. And the other is the Association", he said.

Vucic also announced changes in his country's approach to dialogue.

"It will not be easy, first of all for our people in Kosovo. But there will be changes in our doctrine and approaches. They will no longer bring us a completed act and tell us that they have agreed to pay here, then pay there, and then convert from dollars to euros, and from euros to others," he emphasized.

On Tuesday, the chief negotiators of Kosovo and Serbia will meet in Bruskel to discuss, within the framework of the dialogue, the issue of the Serbian dinar, the use of which the Kosovo authorities banned through a new currency regulation that came into force in February.

Escobari told REL that he failed to convince Prime Minister Kurti during his visit to Pristina this week to suspend the decision to ban the Serbian currency in Kosovo, until the European Union, the United States and the Government of Kosovo find a long-term solution, as they will to be the electronic transfer of euros through the Kosovo system.

Vučić - whose state allocates millions of euros to Kosovo Serbs and pays them salaries, pensions and additional aid - accused the Kosovo authorities of enforcing by force the decision of the Central Bank of Kosovo, which stipulates that only the euro should be used for payments. with cash.

"You can enforce everything by force, but you must admit that you have enforced it by force. Will we ever have to admit, it is possible, but it will be clear that there is no agreement on this and that you have enforced it by force. We will talk in a different way. We are always ready to dialogue, but now with a different approach. We are no longer stupid", emphasized Vučič.


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