Serbia's nationalists demand referendum on Kosovo

Serbian nationalists, who oppose reaching an agreement on Kosovo, call for holding a referendum on the issue.

The goal is to gather 100,000 firms, and then that demand for the referendum to be submitted to Parliament, which will be forced to call the popular vote.

“It is necessary to put social pressure on and prevent the signing of the so-called legally binding agreement, which practically means giving up on Kosovo and Metohija”, told the investigative network “BIRN”, Mladen Obradovic, one of the representatives of the “initiative to rise for Kosovo”, broadcast “Albanian”

President Aleksandar Vucic has on several occasions stated that the international community requires a legal agreement between Belgrade and Pristina.

If we sign every possible guarantee, and the ones we get from Berlin are the ones I trust the most”, he declared on February 27th, after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

According to the web site of this initiative, the referendum has already won support from representatives of the Serbian Orthodox Church, jurists, composers, professors, war veterans, journalists and others. The plan is for firms to surrender within June 28th, ahead of Vidovdan's holiday -- a milestone on the Serbian calendar.