Analyst: Serbian Communist Association Should Not Be Formed

Formation of the Association of Serb majority municipalities should not occur in any variant, says Mazum Baraliu, expert on constitutional issues. He even felt that there should be no pressure on the matter. He says the association should not be realised in practice even for the fact that it is at odds with the constitutional-government system, but also for the fact that Serbia has not implemented most of the 33 agreements reached in Brussels. Above all, Kosovo has the right to not prove it at all.

“Even under the Law for International Accords on the basis of the Vienna Convention, on the basis of its international law and standards, every state has the right to have a change of circumstances, implementing the rhebus principle just to accept in part or not at all about implementing such an agreement. This agreement, which someone insists on, unfortunately whether from inside or from outside, should not be agreed to implement in practice”, Baraliu told Radio Kosovo.

While political science professor Nedmetdin Spahiu says the issue of forming the Serb majority Communist Association should be used as a currency to buy recognition of Kosovo's citizenship from Serbia. He says that “Kosovo can in no way do association without getting recognition”.

If Serbia's recognition of Kosovo has only been promise in the future, then even association should be only promise of the future, and no immediate implementation, as has happened to Ahtisaari's plan. Kosovo has not had to implement Ahtisaari's plan, it has only had to promise, and it has had to say that when Serbia recognises us, we will also make decentralisation, we will create Serb majority municipalities that we have agreed on in Vienna, we will make Serbian official language etc., etc.”, Spahiu told Radio Kosovo.

Kosovo has so far made enough compromises, so the past should serve as thinking, Spahiu says.