Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Accepts All for Kosovo Except One Thing

This will be, briefly, the contents of the platform for resolving the problem with Kosovo, which will hand over to Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq, Serbia's deputy prime minister and Social Democrat Party of Serbia leader Rasim Lajic.

“Novosti” wrote that this is the first concrete proposal of a party that has come out publicly after Vuciq announced the opening of domestic dialogue for Kosovo.
Lajic thinks that the frozen “conflict with Kosovo does not coincide with Serbia and that it has to act now because “anything else leads to slow independence, against which Serbia will gain nothing”.

The goal must be normalization, without recognition, and that will be done in certain phases. The first phase of dialogue implies enabling full economic co-operation with Kosovo. At this time, through administrative points more than 400m euros in goods per year, but this could double as long as no legal and political barriers existed. Serbia can no longer have political influence on Pristina, but the political influence can keep it with its”, Lajiq has declared, broadcast Koha.net.

According to him, the second phase will be opening the issue of Serb status in Kosovo, while the AKS (the Association of Serb municipalities) views it as a form of self-government for them. In addition, Serbia's “issue of wealth and cultural heritage in Kosovo”

The third step would be talks on Kosovo's membership in international organisations, excluding the UN, with clear benefits for Serbia”, Lajic adds, broadcast Koha.net. “After all, if they could do it without us, those discussions would not be necessary”

On the other hand, according to him, Serbia could require variety of things, from financial support for infrastructure development, to accelerating the road to the European Union, and in the final phase should open negotiations on final status”.

Meanwhile, Serbian Progressive Party deputy (SNS) and parliamentary Council for Kosovo chief Milovan Drescu, says it is only a proposal at the beginning of internal dialogue and that it will be discussed later.

The recognition of Kosovo as an independent state and its UN membership is unacceptable for us. Anything else we can talk about”, Drocún said, Time.net broadcast.
Meanwhile, the entirely other opinion has Liberal Party leader Cedomir Jovanovic, who says Serbia should stop blocking Kosovo on its path towards membership in all international organisations, including the UN. He, however, says that “is not about Serbia's decision to recognise Kosovo” and that until such an attitude “our children should come in a normal way”.