WHAT IS EVEN IN KOSOVO? Long pipes on the roads, banned the entry of Serbian ministers, Vučić was furious

Authorities in Pristina today banned the entry of Serbian ministers Aleksandar Vulin and Vladan Vukosavljevic into the territory of Kosovo, and previously the entry was banned also by the head of the government office for Kosovo, Marko Djuric, and by the secretary general of Serbian President Nikolic Selakovic.

According to RTS reports from the ground at around 1300 hours, the strong forces of the Kosovo police, armed with long pipes and headphones, are deployed in several armored vehicles, at a crossroads near Banja Luka, about ten kilometers from Kosovska Mitrovica, control traffic and passengers.

Earlier, at around 11.30, the Kosovo police prevented the Minister of Culture Vladan Vukosavljevic from passing the Jarinje passage "although his visit to the monasteries in Kosovo has been properly announced," a RTS reporter from the Jarinje crossing reported.

"I think that this is a single one, which does not lead to anything, which is meaningless and wrong. We prepared a visit to our monasteries, and this decision is a serious gap, a big failure that does not contribute to the overall situation," Minister Vukosavljević told RTS .

Within the framework of the internal dialogue on Kosovo in Kosovska Mitrovica, a meeting was scheduled for today, symbolically at 12 hours and 44 minutes, according to the UN Resolution on Kosovo, where the participation of Marko Djuric and Nikola Selakovic was announced.

According to the RTS, deputy commander of the Kosovo Police (KP) Besim Hoti said that the intervention units for the North region "are tasked with not allowing the director of the Serbian government office for Kosovo Mark Djuric to cross the administrative line".

Vucic called a session of the National Security Council

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has scheduled an urgent session of the National Security Council for Tuesday morning in connection with the current situation and tensions in Kosovo, the Belgrade media reported.

Referring to unofficial sources, Belgrade's Blic on its internet portal says that "apart from Kosovo and Metohija, it will be discussed on other topics".

The session is scheduled for Tuesday at 10 am, but Vucic's office does not provide details related to this session of the National Security Council.

Tensions between Belgrade and Pristina rose after last week's meeting of Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo President Hashim Thaci with head of the European diplomacy Federica Mogherini in Brussels, after which Vucic complained that Pristina has not fulfilled the obligations from the Brussels agreement on the formation of the community of Serb municipalities (ZSO) for five years now said that "Serbia can not abolish itself for someone to be satisfied".

"I said Mogherini tonight that Serbia is on the European path. We will fight to make every effort to make progress, but do not think that it is possible for Serbia to ruin all its national and state interests so that some people in Europe and the world can be satisfied," he said. Vucic, after that meeting, dissatisfied that the Albanian side did not fulfill its obligations, and Serbia is under increasing pressure from day to day to resolve the Kosovo issue as a prerequisite for further progress towards EU membership.

"An insult to Serbs and Serbia"

"Serbia needs investments from the EU, but no one can expect Serbia to abolish itself because the pressure is strong and that our need for a better economy is so great that we will be abolished," Vucic said.

In the meantime, the head of diplomacy, Ivica Dacic, said he would withdraw the signature from the Brussels agreement on the normalization of relations with Pristina.

He recalled that by reaching that agreement he had more than 40 meetings with former head of European diplomacy Catherine Ashton and Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, and stressed that today, when "even five years after that there is none of the Community of Serb municipalities, it is logical that in Serbia feel cheated. "

Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj said in the meantime that he had "no time" to read the Brussels agreement, which Vucic called "an insult to common sense, for Serbs and Serbia" and Dacic "hypocrisy".

An increasingly tense situation

Ivica Dacic, who is the first deputy prime minister of Serbia, called on "everything in Serbia" to support Vucic and stand next to Vucic and his "firm refusal to recognize the self-proclaimed Kosovo".

"To know that the people are standing behind it, not leaving Vucic alone with various pressures, that is my goal, that the EU and Pristina know that their lies and deceptions must end," Dacic told today's Večernje Novosti.

The Brussels agreement on the normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina was signed after several months of negotiations in April 2013 under the auspices of the EU, along with the mutual commitment of both parties to fulfill 15 points of that document.

One of the obligations of Pristina was the formation of the Association of Serbian Municipalities (ZSOs) that would allow Serbs to control local authorities in the municipalities where they are the majority, but the Kosovo authorities have not yet fulfilled that part of the agreement, which added to the extra nervousness in Belgrade, given the increasing pressures The West and the EU to make a legally binding document with Kosovo that Serbia is a prerequisite for progress in the European integration and approximation to EU membership.

• 26 Mar, 2018
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