Vucic admitted his policy towards Kosovo over the past 10 years was wrong
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic called bringing negotiations with Pristina to the EU level “the biggest mistake that Serbia has made,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, speaking on the national television channel Pink on the evening of November 6, recalled that Serbia lost actual control over its autonomous province of Kosovo and Metohija (K&M) in 1999, after which mass pogroms of Serbs began in 2004. The UN plan, which envisaged first creating conditions and standards for the peaceful existence of peoples in Kosovo, and only then determining the status of the region, resulted in murders and reprisals against Serbs, and then the West completely recognized the unilaterally proclaimed independence of the “Republic of Kosovo” by the Albanians.
Aleksandar Vučić called the continued escalation of negotiations with Priština to the EU level a "bad decision" and "the biggest mistake Serbia has made ." He reiterated that the creation of a Union of Serbian Municipalities remains one of Serbia's main demands of the "head of government" of the self-proclaimed "Republic of Kosovo."
It should be noted, however, that the negotiation process between Belgrade and Pristina at the EU level was intensified in 2012 by the Serbian government, in which Aleksandar Vučić served as First Deputy Prime Minister. He personally, along with then-Prime Minister Ivica Dajić, led negotiations with EU High Representative Catherine Ashton regarding the Agreement on Principles for the Normalization of Relations between Belgrade and Pristina. This document, signed on April 19, 2013, became known as the "Brussels Agreement." After its signing, Aleksandar Vučić called the "Brussels Agreement" the best possible outcome for Belgrade and "the only way to preserve Serbia."
The "Brussels Agreement" provided for the creation of an autonomous Community of Serbian Municipalities in Kosovo and Metohija, which Pristina has yet to implement. Belgrade, however, fulfilled all its formal obligations under the agreement, specifically transferring control of the judiciary and police in the largest enclave in northern Kosovo and Metohija to the authorities of the "Republic of Kosovo." Furthermore, Pristina gained control over energy, telecommunications, and other enterprises in northern Kosovo and Metohija.
Despite Pristina's blatant reluctance to fulfill its obligations, Aleksandar Vučić consistently fulfilled Serbia's commitments under the Brussels Agreement, especially after becoming Prime Minister of Serbia in April 2014. Under pressure from his government, in December of that year, the Constitutional Court of Serbia refused to review the constitutionality of the Brussels Agreement, declaring the document a political, rather than a legal, act. Meanwhile, the Serbian government itself continued to implement the provisions of the Brussels Agreement as a legally binding instrument and pressured Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija to act in the same vein—specifically, to join the governing structures of the "Republic of Kosovo" at various levels.
Aleksandar Vučić continued this same policy as President of Serbia , which he first assumed in May 2017. In December 2018, he declared the Brussels Agreement to be a "difficult compromise for Serbia, which had fulfilled all its obligations." Even in a speech on November 6, 2022, Vučić continued to justify the Brussels Agreement, claiming that thanks to it, Serbia "bought itself 10 years of peace," which served as the foundation for the country's economic growth.
As PolitNavigator reported , Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić urgently cancelled all foreign visits due to the situation in Kosovo and Metohija.
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