If he were alive, Djindjic would work for peace with Kosovo

Former senior Serbian Presidency official Goran Vesic says the late Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic today would be on Vuciqi's side.

“Of course that Djindjic would be on the side of those who are for solving problems because he dreamed peace”, Vesic said, writes B92, returns to Albanian Periscope.

He has said that the thing Djindjic would unequivocally negotiate would be Serbia's membership in the European Union and the permanent solution to economic problems for Serbian citizens”.

Djindjic, he says, was the only one who had to open up the Kosovo issue even in 2002, at a thick line of”.

“He has started this path since the weather and what the Serbian government is doing right now was what Djindjic did at his beginning and, of course, that he would now be in line with this” process, he says, Periscopi writes.

Zoran Djindjic was killed on March 12th 2003, until his former relative says Serbia should not forget what Djindjic started 16 years ago --”.

He won. The victory was paid with his life, I don't know whether he would accept that price so that his dreams could be realised”, the former Serbian official says.

He says Djindjic was killed first of all because he was called a traitor by nationalists who accused him of selling Kosovo.

Otherwise, Zoran Djindjic was the first Serbian prime minister elected after the fall of Slobodan Milosevic's regime in 2000.

Djindjic's government has co-operated with The Hague War Crimes Tribunal and has arrested and extradited some accused to this court.

Djindjic was killed on March 12th 2003 by a sniper near the Government building in downtown Belgrade.

The mastermind of the assassination, Milorad Ulemek Llegija, and sniper Zvezdan Jovanovic have been sentenced to 40 years in prison.  /Periscopi/