Bundestag MP: Serbia to face consequences if it makes no deal with Kosovo

“If one or both sides block compromise, then there is a danger of what exactly Vuciq” is happening, says Bundestag deputy.

And if you don't accept it, you'll face the consequences”, Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vuchic, said Monday, addressing the nation.

You will face, under one, the interruption of the European integration process. Under two, you will face ban and attracting investments. Under three, comprehensive measures in the political and economic sense that will harm Serbia. This has been repeated three times during the conversation, and every time I reacted sharply to”, Vuciq said then.

Juratovic, for “N1”, says he does not know the details of the plan (franco-German) but stresses that Serbia and Kosovo should find solutions through dialogue and compromise.

Bundestag's MP recalls the example of two Germanys, which he says exists as a topic of discussion and adds that it is a possibility that it is not so bad for either Kosovo or Serbia, as it is difficult for Serbia to recognise Kosovo. But this is not a priority now, and two Germans did not know each other, but were in international institutions and through international conventions were useful in the international context”, the MP adds.

“Stability and peace are important to us and both can develop and not block”, he underlined.

In the question of whether Vuciq is right when he says that we are threatened with consequences if the plan is not accepted, Juratovic says that “Wucciq is right about it, but it is not about the fact that the plan must be accepted, but that an agreement will be reached which the two sides will adhere to”.

He says dialogue is lasting for years, compromise becomes and that “then each comes to its own place and everything is interpreted in its own way”, then they refer to their constitution and unjustly “repeat everything from the start”.

“If one or both sides block compromise, then there is the danger of exactly what Vuciq” is referring to, he adds.

He reiterates that Germany's goal and, as he says, of the entire EU, is a stable Western Balkans and that all actors in the EU membership process are solidified with it and clearly determine in which direction they are going.

“If the EU entry process really happens to be set up in '%akullʹ, there will be consequences in helping most of the EU, so there will be no financial assistance, while investors who have no hope of being protected through the rules of the game that reign in the EU will think long if I invest in Serbia”, says Bundestag deputy.

He adds that with the ban on that process, Serbia will actually move back, economically and as a society.

Juratovic has declared earlier that Serbia's reputation as a state is catastrophic and that no one is counting on it.

Asked about his reputation statement, he says he sees it first of all from political perspective, “and that current policy, whoever leads it, is always responsible for this”.

Serbia does not deserve that, because I know many good people, capable, intellectual people who cannot come to the expression. But the very feature of the state -- not only the legal system but also the media freedom -- must be thought of deeper, critical... For the reputation of the state, first of all, politics is responsible because the fish is skunk by the head”, he adds.

Responding to the German-French plan, he says the West is a mediator, that it offers the possibility of how to reach a solution, which points must be resolved to move forward and that an agreement between Kosovo and Serbia should be reached in the end.

I think the solution is for both to engage more internationally and show more co-operation at the international level”, he says.

Yuratovic is convinced that people in Kosovo and Serbia are not interested in what Kurti and Vuciq will agree to, but in real life if they can live because, he says, both sides have the problem that new generations want to leave the country.

But he says that even the [Serbian] society should be thought out, because, he says, no one from politics opposes the fact that society protects Putin's regime, and nobody says the agenda is clear the EU and democratic values. Serbia must secede from Milosevic's current and take Djindjic's path, and for that, there are a lot of people”, he says.

Juratovic is convinced that “people in Kosovo and Serbia do not care what Kurti and Vuciq will agree to, but to real life if they can live because both sides have the problem that new generations want to leave the country”.