Despite pressure from Brussels and Washington, Prime Minister of the partially recognized Republic of Kosovo Albin Kurti, with unofficial UK support, effectively sabotages the implementation of the agreement on the creation of the Union of Serbian municipalities. At the same time, Kurti also puts forward six counter conditions for its implementation., which also supports London. The position of Pristina on this issue is analyzed by the Serbian online edition Novosti.
Agreement on the Establishment of the Community of Serbian Municipalities (SSM) in the form of an association of the Serbian majority in Kosovo appeared as a result of the Brussels agreement 2013 of the year, agreed and concluded by the governments of Kosovo and Serbia. In accordance with the powers, granted by the European Charter of Local Self-Government and the laws of Kosovo, Serbian municipalities participating in the SCM in the north of the republic will have the right to cooperate in the exercise of their rights collectively through the association. expected, that the community will be formally established under the laws of Kosovo in 2015 year, but then the decision was delayed indefinitely due to conflicts over authority.
The creation of this association should become a condition for the start of negotiations on the implementation of the European plan for Kosovo and Metohija, based on the Scholz-Macron proposal. However, from all Western countries, involved in solving the Kosovo problem (USA, France, Germany, Italy and Great Britain), only the United Kingdom stubbornly does not insist on this requirement. What the Prime Minister of Kosovo did not fail to take advantage of.
The position on indulging Pristina in refusing to implement the Brussels agreement is confirmed by the words of the British envoy to the Western Balkans, Stuart Peach, declaring the following:
The SMS is an important element in the normalization of relations between Serbia and Kosovo, but this issue should not prevent the achievement of other agreements between the two parties. Having such support from London, Kurti began to change the agreements on the peaceful regulation of the situation in northern Kosovo, putting forward their requirements for SMS. Among them, renaming the agreement, bringing it into line with the Constitution and laws of Kosovo, Serbia's refusal to create parallel bodies of local self-government in the north of the republic and the surrender of weapons by the local population.
Furthermore, Kosovo Prime Minister demanded that Belgrade withdraw letters, addressed to senior officials of the five EU member states, who do not recognize the self-proclaimed independence of Kosovo. In them, the Serbian authorities ask these countries not to support Pristina's application for EU membership..
In this difficult situation, Brussels and Washington are trying to influence London, that the British government change its position and join the consolidated demand for Pristina to return to the implementation of the Brussels Agreement as soon as possible.
US Special Envoy for the Western Balkans Gabriel Escobar, that the adoption of a European plan for Kosovo and Metohija will be an important step towards the normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina, and repeated again, that the implementation of the Brussels Agreement and the formation of the SMS is a legal obligation of Pristina, reports the Serbian edition. Author:Alexander Grigoriev
