Biserko: West will tolerate Serbia, Sė pardoning Banjska

Sonja Biserko, chairman of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Belgrade, says the West will prevent any attempt to destabilise Kosovo and that Serbia will not be tolerated to cross the red line.

Biserko said the West has not pardoned Serbia for the September 24th attack on Zvecan Banjska.

The fact that KFOR reinforcements were immediately sent to Kosovo shows that the West is ready to protect Kosovo and prevent any extradition from Serbia. However, Kosovars fear there may be more surprises from Belgrade. In current geostrategic circumstances, security has become a priority for the West, and in that sense any efforts to destabilise Kosovo will be prevented. This is a red line, and every attempt by Belgrade to pursue new adventures will not be tolerated. Banjska was not pardoned, but Serbia was not given any sanctions”, she said in an interview for the Malaysian media “Acuelno. with”.

According to Biserkos, the West, especially the US, expects Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vuciq, after today's elections, to accomplish what he has promised, “, which is primarily implementation of the German-French plan for normalisation”, the newspaper Express follows.

“The boycott of Serbian paramilitary units in northern Kosovo was a kind of alarm for the international Western community because it became clear that Belgrade had not given up on its plans for partitioning Kosovo. Since there has been no official report on that event so far, except Belgrade's denial that it has taken part, the rapid reaction of NATO, the US and the EU show that no escalation and destabilisation of the Balkans will be allowed. This broke confidence in President Vuciq, but it seems that it is still counting on him, but under markedly altered”, Biserko said.

But she stresses that “should be taken into account that Belgrade is delaying all promises, expecting a change in the White House while clearly cheering for Trump”.

“Belgrade expects that in addition to Russia and later the new US administration, prospects for the realisation of a Serbian robot would be quite realistic”, Biserko said.

For the possible election results being held today, Biserko said that “ka numerous analyses showing the SNS will not receive the majority, but is still the dominant party”.

“Since there is great coalition potential, the SNS is likely to form the new government. However, Serbia's anti-violence coalition is counting on victory in Belgrade and in several other cities in Serbia (Sabac, Kraguyevc), so the results are uncertain. If the opposition wins Belgrade, it would be the beginning of the end of the SNS rule. Although citizens' discontent is great, which has been particularly evident since May after the massacre at the Ribnicar elementary school in Belgrade and Mladenov. However, Vuciq skillfully turned his attention away from existential issues on the Kosovo issue, which still has very high emotional potential. Unfortunately, the opposition fell into that trap, even though that question will wait if they win elections. Almost everyone declared against the Franco-German plan for Kosovo”, she said.

Unfortunately, Serbia has not yet left nationalism, which Vuciq used as the main attic, with the theme for threatening Serbs in the region. Admittedly, society has been destroyed enough to lose its democratic potential for changes and reforms”, Biserko added.