Haziri: Lajcak must force Serbia to take first step in changing constitution

Haziri, who has been part of negotiations with Serbia for more than a decade, has said that the pressure to change the Serbian Constitution should come from the EU as well.

“z. Lajcak is the reliable and creditable EUSR to Serbia to take the first step in changing the Constitution”, Haziri has said of Express.

Serbia has not changed the Constitution where Kosovo is part of it. Kosovo is even mentioned in the preamble of the Serbian constitution.

For this fact, Haziri wants the EU to pressure Serbia and change the highest legal document.

The European Union should push the first page of Serbia's Constitution that there is the problem, not in the Kosovo Constitution”, Haziri has said.

Miroslav Lajcak, during his visit to Belgrade, said Kosovo must change the constitution and form association as signed in Brussels. On the contrary, he has said that without compromise there can be no normalisation of Kosovo-Serbia reports.

However, Lutfi Haziri says the process must soon be completed without touching territory and recognising Kosovo's independence from Serbia.

This process is heavy but must quickly close with a white agenda, time and specific format. Accepting Kosovo's independence, sovereignty and territory is the first task”, he has said.

Kosovo and Serbia hold negotiations from Rambouija, Brussels' Vienna. In the Vienna process, Ahtisaari's package has been accepted on which the Republic of Kosovo was established and favoured the Serb community, empowering it in Parliament and at the local level in education and health.

Now, Serbia is seeking to establish an association with which the Serb community would be given even executive competencies in some areas, including in the area of security.

But, the mayor of Gjilan says Serbia must comply with the situation and status of the Republic of Kosovo.

The second step is that Serbia must understand that it cannot seek any kind of compensation for anything with the status of the Republic of Kosovo, neither to Kosovo nor to the International Community”, he added.