Ymer: Agreements reached in Brussels, Injured

He said the agreements reached in Brussels are clearly seen as harmful, and especially the latest agreement for the Serb majority community “which practically threatened to overturn the constitutional order of the Republic”.

Radio Free Europe: Meanwhile, Mr. Ymer, there are many warnings that even the format of talks between Kosovo and Serbia under way in Brussels could undergo changes. Do Vetevendosje see any possibilities or forms involved in this process, taking into account the Kosovo president's public call for a comprehensive team?

Visar Umer: First of all, we've never done something that's very important for the Republic of Kosovo, and that's to have an institutional, social discussion, in the Assembly, with civil society, with the country's experts, with the Academy of Sciences and Arts, with the country's intellectuals, in order to assess the overall dialogue. So how did it develop? What has brought us, and where is Kosovo behind this dialogue as an independent and sovereign state? We from the Vetevendosje Movement think this dialogue has produced extremely bad and risks for the Republic of Kosovo, which eventually culminated in the agreement to establish the Serb majority community of municipalities, which was practically a Republika Srpska within the Republic of Kosovo.

Second, a parliamentary investigation should be made on how this dialogue has been conducted in Brussels over these years. You know that dialogue started in 2011 and continued intensively until 2013 and then with a slightly lower intensity until 2015 and the institutions of the Republic of Kosovo, the deputies of the Republic, and the less citizens of the Republic, are not even informed about how this dialogue was developed, which have been the positions of the Republic of Kosovo in the face of this dialogue, and how these agreements came to be, which are clearly harmful, I repeat again with the recent agreement for the majority Serb community, which practically threatened to overturn the constitutional order of the Republic. And in this direction, I consider that without these two things being done, we cannot even talk about what dialogue and when it should develop with Serbia.

On the other hand, the Republic of Kosovo needs a huge need for a dynamic and democratic dialogue for internal development, and in this direction I consider it necessary for central institutions to develop dialogue with the citizens of the country, and here especially with the national minorities living in Kosovo, and maybe especially with the Serb minority living in Kosovo, so that we can talk about the necessity of economic development and the creation of mechanisms for prosperity, economic, social and social equality, even before the law on citizens of the Republic. We think this would be everyone's integration path into Kosovo society, in order to have a society that is dynamic, on the other hand is a sustainable foundation for sustainable development and increased prosperity for citizens.

Any dialogue with Serbia has so far proved that it affects the Republic of Kosovo more and undermines its functionality, rather than creating any environment for integration and common life. While the Republic of Kosovo needs its citizens to live together, for its citizens to be equal, and for its citizens to have jobs, so that through these jobs there will be a well-being and an overall asset that is equally divided. We are absolutely opposed to this way of dialogue with Serbia, and especially because of the lack of principle in it, even because of the topics which are discussed which are asymmetric.

Radio Free Europe: When talking about Kosovo reports, Serbia, currently in Belgrade, the government there has initiated an internal dialogue about Kosovo. What do you see possible for Belgrade to change its position towards the state of Kosovo?

Visar Umer: But we should see that, of course, this dialogue has already started in Serbia, and in this direction we still have it unclear where this dialogue will go and what the interests or interests of the parties there are developing. I consider that the recognition of the Republic of Kosovo by the recognition of the Republic of Serbia is both the necessary minimum, but also the issue that should not be delayed, because only thus is good conditions created between the two countries. So the principle of good neighbourlyity, which would have to be the principle of the relationship between states in the region where we are, in the Balkans, is possible only after mutual recognition. Without mutual recognition, there is no neighbourhood; hence, there is no good neighborhood.

Radio Free Europe: If we can get back to the Parliament work. Do you expect that during this mandate, the Assembly will be able to overcome a continuing blockade of decision-making when issues that require a majority of two-thirds of the vote come in?

Visar Umer: I think it depends on what matters we're talking about. We had a situation where 2/3 of the votes were reached when we voted for agreements for IPA funds that Kosovo receives from the European Union. So it's not that the Assembly has been constantly blocked on each subject. The Assembly was blocked when we were staged in protest to defend the Republic, which was then testified to by the Constitutional Court's act of judgment, which is being testified for days of new fate against the Agreement on Demarging the border line with Montenegro. So in this regard, I consider that depending on what issues we will discuss and the Assembly will be functional.

We are extremely interested that in the Republic of Kosovo, in both institutional and social discussion, we focus on two issues that are also priority and very urgent for the Republic of Kosovo, and it is the first to discuss that developed economy that creates jobs for the citizens of the country, and on the other side, to discuss that independent and autonomous judiciary which creates equal justice for the citizens of the country. So these two are missing and without these two, as the main pillars of the state we cannot build state. In the meantime, that other issues that are constantly coming up as our priority are not our priorities, are other priorities of whom, these topics from which citizens of the Republic of Kosovo have seen no benefit.